Title
Authorize the Purchasing Manager for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) to execute Amendment No. 5 to the Agreement (A-11010) with Credit Consulting Services Inc. for Bad Debt Collection Services at NMC, extending the Agreement to June 30, 2015 for a total Agreement amount not to exceed $3,100,000 (no increase to previously approved amount) in the aggregate.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended the Board of Supervisors authorize the Purchasing Manager for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) to execute Amendment No. 5 to the Agreement (A-11010) with Credit Consulting Services Inc. for Bad Debt Collection Services at NMC, extending the Agreement to June 30, 2015 for a total Agreement amount not to exceed $3,100,000 (no increase to previously approved amount) in the aggregate.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
Credit Consulting Services Inc. is one of two agencies that NMC uses to provide collection services for NMC's self-pay patients and bad debt collections. Credit Consulting Services receives a daily data file of all self-pay patients from NMC's Meditech system and is responsible to send three (3) collection notices to the patient within a 150 day time frame, if no response is received from the patient, then the account is put into bad debt collections. Credit Consulting Services has been providing this service to Natividad since 2007 and is a need to recover bad debt monies.
This Renewal and Amendment No. 5 extends the term of the Agreement through June 30, 2015. No additional dollars from the previously approved amount of $3,100,000 are being requested at this time.
OTHER AGENCY INVOLVEMENT:
County Counsel has reviewed and approved this Amendment No. 5 as to legal form and risk provisions. Auditor-Controller has reviewed and approved this Amendment No. 5 as to fiscal provisions. The Amendment No. 5 has also been reviewed and approved by Natividad Medical Center's Board of Trustees.
FINANCING:
As a result of Amendment No. 3, the Board of Superv...
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