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Mental Health Department recommending Chairman be authorized to sign Agreement 781-S0810 with the El Dorado County Community Health Center (EDCCHC) in an amount not to exceed $50,000 for the term of April 1, 2008 through May 31, 2011 to provide substance abuse treatment and counseling services to clients of the County Medical Services Program (CMSP) Pilot Project.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve.
FUNDING: El Dorado Community Health Center to compensate County for services provided.
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BUDGET SUMMARY:
Total Estimated Cost $50,000
Funding
Budgeted $50,000
New Funding $
Savings $
Other $
Total Funding Available $50,000
Change To Net County Cost $0
Fiscal Impact/Change to Net County Cost: This is a revenue generating contract for the Mental Health Department (MHD). There is no Change to Net County Cost.
Reason for Recommendation: In 1983, California transferred responsibility for providing health care services to indigent adults from the State of California to California counties. This law recognized that many smaller, rural counties were not in the position to assume this new responsibility. As a result, the law also provided counties with a population of 300,000 or fewer with the option of contracting back with the California Department of Health Services (DHS) to provide health care services to indigent adults. DHS utilized the administrative infrastructure of Medi-Cal's fee-for-service program to establish and administer the County Medical Services Program (CMSP). In 1995 California law was amended to establish a CMSP Governing Board and at the same time authorize the Board to contract with DHS or a alternative contractor to administer the program. Since October 1, 2005 CMSP has been using Blue Cross Life & Health (BCL&H) to handle administrative responsibility for CMSP.
Last year the EDCCHC responded to a CMSP Request for Proposals (RFP) for the CMSP Behavioral Health P...
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