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a. Approve and authorize the Director of Health or Assistant Director of Health to execute a Business Associate Agreement ("BAA") with the Central California Alliance for Health ("Alliance") and to authorize its addition as an exhibit to the parties' Memorandum of Understanding (Agreement No. A-14015), effective July 1, 2018, memorializing the parties' responsibilities in implementing the California Children's Services ("CCS") Whole Child Model Program (Health and Safety Code section 123800 et seq.); and
b. Approve the non-standard provisions of the BAA, as recommended by the Director of Health.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
a. Approve and authorize the Director of Health or Assistant Director of Health to execute a Business Associate Agreement ("BAA") with the Central California Alliance for Health ("Alliance") and to authorize its addition as an exhibit to the parties' Memorandum of Understanding (Agreement No. A-14015), effective July 1, 2018, memorializing the parties' responsibilities in implementing the California Children's Services ("CCS") Whole Child Model Program (Health and Safety Code section 123800 et seq.); and
b. Approve the non-standard provisions of the BAA, as recommended by the Director of Health.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
The California Children's Services (CCS) Program provides diagnostic and treatment services, medical case management, and physical and occupational therapy services to children under 21 years of age with CCS-eligible medical conditions. The CCS Program is administered as a partnership between Monterey County Health Department, the Alliance, and the California Department of Health Care Services.
Senate Bill (SB) 586 Chapter 625 Statute of 2016 authorized DHCS to establish the Whole Child Model (WCM), incorporating CCS covered services for the Medi-Cal eligible CCS children and youth into a Medi-Cal managed care health plan (MCP) contract between DHCS and nearly all County Organiz...
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