RECOMMENDATION(S):
Approve and authorize the Health Services Director, or his designee, to execute, on behalf of the County, Contract Amendment Agreement #24–794–8(16) with John Muir Behavioral Health, a non-profit corporation, effective April 1, 2017, to amend Contract #24-794-8(15), to increase the payment limit by $500,000 from $1,050,000 to a new payment limit of $1,550,000, with no change in the original term of July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This amendment is funded 100% Mental Health Realignment funds. (No rate increase)
BACKGROUND:
Assembly Bill (AB) 757, (Chapter 633, Statutes of 1994), authorized the transfer of state funding for Fee-For-Service/Medi-Cal acute psychiatric inpatient hospital services from the Department of Health Services to the Department of Health Care Services. On January 1, 1995, the Department of Mental Health transferred these funds and the responsibility for authorization and funding of Medi-Cal acute psychiatric inpatient hospital services to counties that chose to participate in this program.
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