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a. Authorize the Chief Executive Officer for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute an agreement with Executive Consulting Group, LLC, dba ECG Management Consultants, a Delaware LLC for Cardiovascular service line strategy coding and billing review services at NMC for an amount not to exceed $115,000 with an agreement term retroactive from May 1, 2025 through April 30, 2026.
b. Approve the NMC’s Chief Executive Officer’s recommendation to accept non-standard payment conditions, termination, insurance, royalties and inventions, miscellaneous provisions and limitations on liability provisions within the agreement.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended the Board of Supervisors:
a. Authorize the Chief Executive Officer for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute an agreement with Executive Consulting Group, LLC, dba ECG Management Consultants, a Delaware LLC for Cardiovascular service line strategy coding and billing review services at NMC for an amount not to exceed $115,000 with an agreement term retroactive from May 1, 2025 through April 30, 2026.
b. Approve the NMC’s Chief Executive Officer’s recommendation to accept non-standard payment conditions, termination, insurance, royalties and inventions, miscellaneous provisions and limitations on liability provisions within the agreement.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
The purpose of this agreement is to engage a national Cardiology Consulting company (ECG Management Consultants) to provide data, Cardiology statistics, and guidance for the appropriate growth of our Cardiology Service Line. Natividad Medical Center has enjoyed significant growth in all of our cardiovascular services over the last 5 years. This growth has been very beneficial financially for the County of Monterey and Natividad Medical Center.
The Cardiology Service line has been a great benefit to our community of patients. We now are able to keep the patients in our facilities rather than sending the patien...
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