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Authorize the Interim Chief Executive Officer of Natividad Medical Center (NMC) to execute the Central California Alliance for Health (CCAH) no-cost Eighteenth (18th) Amendment to the Primary Hospital and Outpatient Laboratory Services Agreement to incorporate and continue the Outpatient Laboratory incentive payment for certain Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) 2015 Laboratory Test Results. The Agreement has been renewed automatically for successive one-year terms, subject to three termination provisions (immediate termination, termination without cause, termination with cause).
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
Authorize the Interim Chief Executive Officer of Natividad Medical Center (NMC) to execute the Central California Alliance for Health (CCAH) no-cost Eighteenth (18th) Amendment to the Primary Hospital and Outpatient Laboratory Services Agreement to incorporate and continue the Outpatient Laboratory incentive payment for certain Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) 2015 Laboratory Test Results. The Agreement has been renewed automatically for successive one-year terms, subject to three termination provisions (immediate termination, termination without cause, termination with cause).
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
The Central California Alliance for Health (CCAH) is the Medi-Cal Managed Care Commission for Santa Cruz-Monterey-Merced counties. NMC provides outpatient laboratory, inpatient and outpatient services to CCAH members.
The County of Monterey, on behalf of NMC, entered into a Primary Hospital Services Agreement with CCAH with an original term of July 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007. Since then, the Agreement has been renewed automatically for successive one-year terms, subject to three termination provisions (immediate termination, termination without cause, termination with cause).
Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS...
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