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Health Services Department recommending the Board delegate and authorize the Director of Health Services Department to execute agreements with other counties based on the standardized agreement developed by the State of California - Health and Human Services Agency, Department of Mental Health, to ensure access to and payment for specialty mental health services for El Dorado County foster children placed out-of-county and for out-of-county foster children placed in El Dorado County.
FUNDING: Other Counties, or Medi-Cal, Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT), AB 3632, and Realignment.
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Fiscal Impact/Change to Net County Cost: There is no Net County Cost associated with this Agreement. Where another county is providing specialty mental health services to a foster child whose county of origin is El Dorado County, the EDC Health Services Department, Mental Health Division, will arrange payment to that county, and will then claim reimbursement from available funding sources (such as: Medi-Cal, Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT), AB 3632, and Realignment), depending upon eligibility of the child and the specific services provided. Where El Dorado County is providing such services to a foster child from another county, the funding source will be a payment from that county.
Reason for Recommendation: SB 785 (Chapter 811, Statutes of 2000) added Section 5777.6 to Welfare and Institutions Code (W&I Code) requiring local mental health plans (MHPs) to establish a procedure to ensure access to outpatient specialty mental health services for foster care children placed outside their county of origin.
The MHP in the child's county of origin is responsible fo...
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