SUBJECT:	Survey Findings Concerning San Diego Health Insurance
	Plans and Health Care Providers

Dear Colleagues:

The Committee on Faculty Welfare conducted an anonymous survey of faculty concerning their experiences with health insurance plans and medical providers. The Committee felt that it would be helpful for faculty to learn about how these plans operated in a local context. This information may assist faculty as they evaluate other information to make decisions about health care during the open enrollment period.

A survey was designed
(http://www-senate.ucsd.edu/FrontPageDocs/CFW/HCS.pdf) and distributed electronically to all current and emeritus faculty members. The surveys were distributed on July 14 and 154 surveys were returned by the deadline of July 31, 2008.

The survey results can be found at the following link:

http://www-senate.ucsd.edu/FrontPageDocs/CFW/SR.pdf

In analyzing data regarding health insurance carriers (Table 1), we decided not to provide data on the experience with Cigna, since there were only two responses regarding this plan.

We also surveyed faculty concerning their experience with health care providers. Some emeritus faculty provided data on out of town practices, and those data are not tabulated. Similarly, a small number of faculty received their care from individual practitioner offices and those data are not tabulated. Table 2 provides data where there were responses from at least 3 faculty members.

We hope this information will be helpful.

Sincerely, Joel E. Dimsdale Chair Committee on Faculty Welfare