RECOMMENDATION(S):
Approve and authorize the Health Services Director, or his designee (Jeff Smith, M.D.), to execute on behalf of the County, Contract Amendment Agreement #26-602-2 with Traditions Psychology Group, Inc. (dba Traditions Behavioral Health), a corporation, effective October 1, 2008, to amend Contract #26-602 (as amended by Amendment Agreement #26-602-1) to increase the payment limit by $1,900,000, from $11,100,000 to a new payment limit of $13,000,000, with no change in the original term of June 15, 2007 through June 14, 2010.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Funding for this Contract is 100% Enterprise Fund I included in the Health Services Departments Budget. As appropriate, patients and/or third-party payors will be billed for services. This Amendment will be offset from cost savings due to cancellation of contracts with individual psychiatrists and locum tenens staffing companies.
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