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Ratify and authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute Amendment No. 3 to the Agreement (A-12260) with 3M Company for medical records coding software maintenance, ICD-10 software licensing and maintenance and medical necessity dictionaries software maintenance services at NMC, with a retroactive date of June 30, 2015, extending the Agreement an additional 5-year period for a revised full term August 9, 2010 through August 8, 2020 and adding $1,037,102 for a revised total Agreement amount not to exceed $1,763,470.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended the Board of Supervisors:
Ratify and authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute Amendment No. 3 to the Agreement (A-12260) with 3M Company for medical records coding software maintenance, ICD-10 software licensing and maintenance and medical necessity dictionaries software maintenance services at NMC, with a retroactive date of June 30, 2015, extending the Agreement an additional 5 year period for a revised full term August 9, 2010 through August 8, 2020 and adding $1,037,102 for a revised total Agreement amount not to exceed $1,763,470.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
As the vendor of choice with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) NMC has worked with 3M for over two decades for the provision of software and services pertaining to medical records coding. These services help NMC to achieve the highest reimbursement rates by several state and federal organizations for services provided to patients at NMC.
In June of 2012 this board approved Amendment No. 2 to extend the agreement with 3M Company to August 8, 2015 and adding $554,250.31 for medical coding software licensing and maintenance services including new physician professional coding and reimbursement software, medical necessity dictionaries for Medi-Cal and Medicare software and maintenance services, on-going codin...
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