History and Accomplishments
Nineteen founding employers, unions and trust funds came together to
launch the California Health Care Coalition as a nonprofit
labor-management organization on January 1, 2006. Since then, CHCC has
more than doubled its membership to include over 42 private and public
sector employers, unions and trust funds currently representing 3
million Californians.
Key accomplishments include:
Launched a groundbreaking collaboration with Blue Shield of California
to develop HMO and PPO networks that meet our expectations for safe,
effective, and fairly priced health care;
Negotiated a model Pharmacy Benefit Manger contract with Catalyst Rx that
offers complete transparency, aggressive pricing, and a physician visit
program using actual client pharmacy claims to educate physicians about
clinically appropriate, more cost-effective alternatives to their current
prescribing choices;
Signed a Master Agreement and Pay for Quality Improvement Program with
Doctors Medical Center in Modesto, California that is two years ahead of any
government efforts and unique in California’s commercial market today;
Licensed the analytic resources of WebMD to compare California hospitals on
the quality and cost of care;
Initiated in-depth discussions with senior managers at Kaiser Permanente on
a wide range of issues raised by purchasers, with the aim of establishing
joint initiatives to improve quality and stabilize premiums.
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