RECOMMENDATION(S):
Approve and authorize the Health Services Director, or his designee, to execute, on behalf of the County, Contract #74-271-11(12) with Rene Lewellyn, Marriage and Family Therapist, Inc., a professional corporation, in an amount not to exceed $200,000, to provide Medi-Cal specialty mental health services for the period from July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2019.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This Contract is by funded 50% Federal Medi-Cal and 50% State Mental Health Realignment. (No rate increase)
BACKGROUND:
On January 14, 1997, the Board of Supervisors adopted Resolution #97/17, authorizing the Health Services Director to contract with the State Department of Mental Health (now known as the Department of Health Care Services), to assume responsibility for Medi-Cal specialty mental health services. Responsibility for outpatient specialty mental health services involves contracts with individual, group and organizational providers to deliver these services.
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