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a. Authorize the Auditor-Controller to amend the FY 2016-17 Behavioral Health Department's Budget 023-4000-HEA017-8473 to increase appropriations and revenues by $5,366,926 (4/5 vote required);
b. Approve and authorize the Auditor-Controller to amend the FY 2016-17 Behavioral Health Department's Budget 023-4000-HEA017-8473 to reflect the changes in appropriations and revenues.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
a. Authorize the Auditor-Controller to amend the FY 2016-17 Behavioral Health Department's Budget 023-4000-HEA017-8473 to increase appropriations and revenues by $5,366,926 (4/5 vote required);
b. Approve and authorize the Auditor-Controller to amend the FY 2016-17 Behavioral Health Department's Budget 023-4000-HEA017-8473 to reflect the changes in appropriations and revenues.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
The County's Agreement with the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) for the Whole Person Care five-year pilot program (WPC Pilot) was approved by your Board on November 1, 2016. The WPC Pilot was authorized under California's Medi-Cal 2020 waiver to test locally-based initiatives that will coordinate physical health, behavioral health, and social services for vulnerable Medi-Cal beneficiaries who are high users of multiple systems and continue to have or are at risk of poor health outcomes. Monterey County's WPC Pilot will be in effect from date of execution of Agreement through June 30, 2021.
The initial WPC Pilot focus population is high utilizers of hospital emergency department and inpatient services who are exclusively homeless/chronically homeless Medi-Cal recipients or Medi-Cal eligible persons with no medical health home (including those released from jail) and having three or more of the following characteristics: diagnosed mental illness, four or more mental health unit admissions in the prior year, diagnosed Substance Use Disorder, two or more chronic health diagnoses, three or more emer...
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