SILVER STATE HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGE BOARD MEETING THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2017, 1:30 P.M. -ooo- call the order, call the meeting to order.

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1 SILVER STATE HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGE BOARD MEETING THURSDAY, DECEMBER, 0, :0 P.M. -ooo- Well, I think that that is everyone we were expecting, then. So we'll go ahead and 0 call the order, call the meeting to order. to everyone. And welcome And who would like to take roll call? I will do that, Dr. Jameson. This is Heather Korbulic from, calling in from Las Vegas. So Dr. Jameson? Here. Ms. Valerie Clark? MS. CLARK: Lavonne Lewis? 0 MS. LEWIS: Dr. Cook? DR. COOK: MR. JOHNSON: Jonathan Johnson? Jose Melendrez? SSHIX BOARD MEETING, --0

2 Quincy Branch? MR. BRANCH: MS. JENSEN: Marta Jensen? Commissioner Richardson? COMMISSIONER RICHARDSON: Here. 0 MS. WOOLDRIDGE: MS. WOOLDRIDGE: And Bessie Wooldridge? Is that a present for Bessie? Yes. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Yes. MS. WOOLDRIDGE: Yes. Sorry. Oh, good. Gotcha. All right. Madam Chair, we do have a quorum. it. Oh, great. I must have missed You did say Dan Cook? Yes, he's present. 0 All right. Thank you. And, first, there are no special announcements. Going right on to public comment, was there any public comment in the north? And any public comment in the south? We do have public comment from the south. Hold on just a second. MR. BARRY GOLD: Good afternoon. For the SSHIX BOARD MEETING, --0

3 record, my name is Barry Gold. I'm the Director of 0 Government Relations for AARP Nevada. I realize there is very short time left to finish up this open enrollment period. My public comment today is I would like to thank and, I guess, a little bit early congratulate everyone involved with Nevada Health Link who have been involved in making sure Nevadans have access to affordable quality healthcare coverage. And the last thing that I will say is happy holidays. Thank you. Thank you, Barry Gold. And thank you and happy holiday. Always nice to have you with us. Is there any other public comment? Not from Vegas. Not hearing any other comment, 0 north or south, we all have received the minutes from the October th, 0 Board meeting. Is there any member of the Board that would like to make the motion? MR. JOHNSON: Jonathan Johnson. I motion to approve. MR. BRANCH: Quincy branch. Second. Thank you, Jonathan, Quincy. SSHIX BOARD MEETING, --0

4 Everybody in favor of passing the minutes from October th, 0 Board meeting as presented, please say "aye." (Board members said "aye.") Very good. Any opposed? Ah, thank you, Lavonne. MS. CLARK: Madam Chair, this is Valerie Clark. I am abstaining because I missed the meeting. Thank you, Valerie. 0 Okay. any questions? Okay. So, besides the absence, anyone vote, or So the minutes are passed, with Valerie Clark abstaining since she was not present. And the reason for our phone call and possible action today is for approval of the semi-annual Fiscal and Operational Report pursuant to NRS I.0()(b), which will go to the Governor and the Legislature. All of you have received a copy of this in the appropriate time. And we would like to -- at this 0 point, normally what we would do is go ahead and -- everyone should be familiar with it. We would like to make a motion to approve it. And then, of course, after we make a motion, we can have discussion, if there's any. Unless, Heather, before we go into that, did SSHIX BOARD MEETING, --0

5 you want to make any comments? No. I'm just happy to answer any questions or receive any comments the Board might have. I have none. It was an excellent, excellent report. staff for that. And I'd like to thank the 0 So then I would like to entertain a motion from the Board regarding the Fiscal and Operational Report. MS. CLARK: I'm Valerie Clark. I move to approve the report. MR. JOHNSON: Jonathan Johnson. Second. Thank you. MR. MELENDREZ: And this is Jose. I'm on the phone. Oh, thank you. 0 For the record, please show that Jose Melendrez has joined us. Jose, we have just noted that everyone has received in a timely, appropriate fashion the semi-annual Fiscal and Operational Report. MR. MELENDREZ: Yep. And we just had a motion and seconded to have that passed. And I would now like to ask everybody in SSHIX BOARD MEETING, --0

6 favor -- oh, I did ask for a discussion or comments. Were there any? MR. MELENDREZ: No, it all looked good. All right. Then, I will ask for everyone in favor to please say "aye." (Board members said "aye.") Any opposition or abstaining? 0 So this motion for passing approval of the Fiscal and Operational Report pursuant to NRS I.0()(b) to the Governor and Legislature is approved. There are no nays and no abstinence. So, at this point, I am open to any discussion and possible action regarding the dates, times, and agendas, agenda items for the future meeting. Our next future meeting, I believe, we were planning -- Heather, were we going to start January quarterly; is that correct? Yes, correct. It's scheduled for January th at :0 p.m. 0 And so, for everyone's information, January th, :0 p.m., north and south, regular conference. And if there are no other questions or comments, then I would like to say we could adjourn. Did anyone want to motion that, although it's not SSHIX BOARD MEETING, --0

7 necessary? comment. MR. BELCOURT: I think, we need another public Oh, yes, we do. We do need one more public comment. Thank you very much. Do we have any public comment from the north? Any public comment from the south? Barry Gold? We're laughing, but, no, he's 0 not going to public comment again. All right. I hear no further public comments. I would like to thank our staff, under the amazing leadership of Heather, for this really excellent report and an outstanding year of service to our state in providing quality, quality healthcare. You guys work hard. And I want you to know, we all appreciate it, especially those people in our community who have been recipients of these plans and otherwise may well have 0 been without access to healthcare. incredible job you do. Thank you for the And happy holidays to everybody. (Everyone stated happy holiday wishes.) The meeting's adjourned. -ooo- SSHIX BOARD MEETING, --0