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Authorize the Chief Executive Officer for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute amendment No. 3 to the agreements with Receivable Solutions, Inc. (A-13319) and Credit Consulting Services, Inc. (A-13320) pursuant to the Request for Proposal (RFP) #9600-64 for debt collection services, to extend an additional one (1) year (October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021) for a revised full agreement term of October 1, 2016 through September 30, 2021 and adding $1,000,000 for a revised total aggregate amount not to exceed $7,970,000.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended the Board of Supervisors:
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Authorize the Chief Executive Officer for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute amendment No. 3 to the agreements with Receivable Solutions, Inc. (A-13319) and Credit Consulting Services, Inc. (A-13320) pursuant to the Request for Proposal (RFP) #9600-64 for debt collection services, to extend an additional one (1) year (October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021) for a revised full agreement term of October 1, 2016 through September 30, 2021 and adding $1,000,000 for a revised total aggregate amount not to exceed $7,970,000.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
NMC utilizes two outside contractors, per RFP 9600-64 to collect on NMC's self-pay patients and bad debt collections. The contractor shall receive three (3) daily data files of all self-pay patients from NMC's Meditech system. With this information, the contractors will be responsible to send three (3) collection notices to the patient within a 150-day time-frame requesting payment. The contractors are responsible for arranging and setting up a payment plan for services incurred at NMC. If there is no response, the patients account is put into a bad debt collection for further collection efforts. Liens are applied as appropriate.
The agreement documents themselves do not state a total agreement amount specifically. Payment is based on the amount of debt collected and is...
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