RECOMMENDATION(S):
Approve and authorize the Health Services Director, or his designee, to execute, on behalf of the County, Contract Amendment Agreement #26-701-2 with Medicus Emergency Room Medicine Services West, LLC, a limited liability company, effective January 1, 2012, to amend Contract #26-701 (as amended by #26-701-1), to increase the payment limit by $225,000, from $275,000 to a new payment limit of $500,000 with no change in the original term of August 1, 2011 through July 31, 2012.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This amendment is funded 100% by Enterprise Fund I. (No rate increase)
BACKGROUND:
On August 16, 2011, the Board of Supervisors approved Contract #26-701 (as amended by Amendment Agreement #26-701-1) with Medicus Emergency Room Medicine Services West, LLC, for the period from August 1, 2011 through July 31, 2012, for the provision of temporary physicians to cover during vacation, sick leave, and extended leave relief for County-employed physicians in the Emergency Room at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center and Contra Costa Health Centers.
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