RECOMMENDATION(S):
Approve and authorize the Health Services Director, or his designee, to execute, on behalf of the County, Contract #26-583-16 with Specialty Laboratories Inc. (dba Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute of Valencia), a corporation, in an amount not to exceed $950,000, for the provision of outside clinical laboratory services for Contra Costa Regional Medical Center and Contra Costa Health Centers (CCRMC), for the period from January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This Contract is 100% funded by Enterprise Fund I. As appropriate, patients and third party payors will be billed for services. No rate increase.
BACKGROUND:
Certain laboratory tests require equipment not available at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center's laboratory and are rarely requested tests. Because of the large number and diversity of laboratory tests used by the medical community to make diagnoses, most hospitals have to utilize outside laboratories, as it is too cost prohibitive to provide all tests on site. Contra Costa County has used the services of outside laboratories for over twenty-five years.
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