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  Healthy San Francisco Webinar Wednesday, January 25th @ 11:00AM West Coast Time
This webinar will feature an update on the Health Care Security Ordinance with our guest Matt Goldberg from the City's Office of Labor Standards Enforcement (OLSE). This webinar will also be focused on the Healthy San Francisco Outreach activities to your employees, portal enhancements, and opportunities to develop a customized outreach program for your management teams and your employees.
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  New Features on Healthy San Francisco Employer Portal Website
  • Date of Birth parameters have been setup at 15 to 100. If you have an employee outside of this range, please call (415) 615-4492 for assistance with your roster.
  • Manage Employee Changes--You can now go to Manage Employees to make demographic changes. These changes will now automatically update all rosters which have been submitted including the employee's profile.

Download Summary of New Features »
Download the new User Guide »

  Employer Feedback / Questions
We have received many inquiries from Employers wanting to know what "other health coverage" means on the roster submitted to Healthy San Francisco.

Other Health Coverage means your employee has coverage through your company, their own personal coverage, or coverage from a partner/spouse. We use this information to assign your employee to the proper plan.

Employees who live in San Francisco and are uninsured are assigned to Healthy San Francisco. All other employees, those who live outside San Francisco or live in San Francisco but have other health coverage, are assigned to the Medical Reimbursement Account (MRA) Program where they can get reimbursed for premiums, medical, dental, vision, prescriptions, and over the counter meds.

Have a Question? Please send them to bschenbaum@healthysanfrancisco.org

  HeartBeat
This publication is sent three times a year to your employees who are enrolled in Healthy San Francisco; below is a link to the latest edition of Healthy San Francisco's HeartBeat newsletter.

Healthy San Francisco's Fall 2011 HeartBeat publication »

  On-Line Electronic Payments Now Available!
Healthy San Francisco is pleased to announce that Electronic Fund Transfer is now available.

Electronic Fund Transfer allows you to make immediate, secure online payments for roster submissions. When you click on the "Pay Now" link from your "Manage Rosters" screen you will be directed to Union Bank of California’s secure portal for payment. The process is simple, easy-to-use, secure and available now.
Here is a quick reference user guide (PDF) for the online payment process. You will still be able to make your payment by check if that is more convenient.

  Be Sure You Have the Right Mailing Address
Please send your payments to:
HSF Program
201 Third Street, 7th floor
San Francisco, CA 94103


The PO Box which was used in the past is now closed.
We want to get your contributions to your employee’s health care processed ASAP.

  Health Care Reform
We have begun to receive inquiries from employers on information about National Health Care Reform.

Although we are not the content experts on the impending health care changes we would like to share 2 very useful websites:

The California HealthCare Foundation
www.CHCF.org
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
www.KFF.org

Here is a recent article about the health exchanges scheduled for 2014:

After Much Scrutiny, HHS Releases Health Insurance Exchange Rules from Kaiser Health News