DATE: May 21, 2024
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Susan Holt, Director, Department of Behavioral Health
SUBJECT: Retroactive Amendment No. 3 to Master Agreement No. 24-021 for Individual and Group Providers for the Fresno County Mental Health Plan
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
TITLE
Approve and authorize the Chairman to execute a retroactive Amendment 3 to Master Agreement to revise the billing rates, remove one provider, Bashful Elephant Consulting, from the agreement and add three providers, Inspire Psychological Services, Inc., Joint Opportunities, and West Side Church of God to the agreement, effective July 1, 2023 with no change to the term of July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2025, and increasing the maximum by $4,498,209 to a total of $27,239,838.
REPORT
There is no additional Net County Cost associated with approval of the recommended action, which will revise the provider billing rate sheet to correct an error in the per minute rates, remove Bashful Elephant Consulting from the agreement and add three additional providers, Inspire Psychological Services, Inc., Joint Opportunities, and West Side Church of God, to the agreement. The addition of these providers will allow additional qualified community mental health professionals to provide Specialty Mental Services to Medi-Cal recipients. This item is countywide.
ALTERNATIVE ACTIONS:
There is no viable alternative action. Should your Board not approve the recommended action, the Department would continue to pay providers at an inaccurate per minute rate and not have sufficient expenditure limits to reimburse contracted providers for FY 2023-24 and 2024-25. The County would not be able pay providers for services related to the Supplemental/Add-On service codes and lose out on the opportunity to bill Medi-Cal for those services. Should Inspire Psychological Services Inc., Joint Opportunities and West Side Church of God not be added to the Master Agreement, the Department would not be able to increase its n...
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