What Isn't There (on the Health Services Agenda)

The Health Services Committee of the Regents will be meeting on June 11 at UCLA. The date has been posted for a long time. But the agenda has recently appeared and is reproduced below. However, what is of interest is what isn't on the agenda. There is no mention of the RFP - that has been previously noted on this blog* - to shift retiree health insurance starting on January 1, 2020 from self-insurance to carrier-provided insurance. If there is no discussion of this proposal scheduled for the June Health Services meeting, it can be inferred that the powers-that-be at UCOP don't think the issue needs to be presented to the July (full board) Regents meeting.

As our prior post noted, UCOP folks think (or say) the switch to carrier-provided insurance will save on the order of $40 million per annum with virtually no impact on insurance recipients. But there are reasons to be suspicious about a manna-from-heaven change that promises big cost savings but no drop in quality. Indeed, if yours truly were the dreaded state auditor, he would be anxious to know why UCOP hadn't made the switch long ago and had been wasting $40 million each year.

It might be noted that such points have recently been made to UCOP and the UC president in letters from emeriti groups, apparently with no effect on the agenda of the Health Services Committee and, therefore, the subsequent agenda of the full Board of Regents.

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Below is the posted agenda (as of today) of the open session of the June 11th Health Services Committee:

• Public Comment Period (20 minutes)
• Action: Approval of the Minutes of the Meeting of April 9, 2019
• H1 Discussion: Remarks of the Executive Vice President – UC Health
• H2 Action: Approval of Appointment of and Compensation for Chief Executive Officer, UCR Health, Riverside Campus, as Discussed in Closed Session
• [No H3 is listed. ???]
• H4 Action: Establishment of a New Senior Management Group Position of Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Health Affiliates Network, UCSF Health, and the Market Reference Zone for the Position, San  Francisco Campus
• H5 Discussion: High Reliability Organizations: Joint Commission Readiness
• H6 Action: Amendment of the Clinical Enterprise Management Recognition Plan
• H7 Action: Approval of Proposed Request for Approval of the Irvine Campus Medical Complex, Irvine Campus
• H8 Discussion: UC Davis Health: Interrupting the Cycle of Homelessness, Mental Illness and Incarceration 

Source: https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/june19/hs.pdf

(The closed session deals with H2 above, labor relations, and litigation.)
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*http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2019/05/2021-health-care-changes.html