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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 08141990 - 1.43 DUAI(U yr avrcR11 JZUK5 FRCM: W Conti Mark Finucane, Director Costa GATE: Health Services Department Coun !JB„IECT: August 7 , 1990 TOBACCO TAX (AB-75 ) SPECIFIC REQUESTIS) OR RECOWENDATION(S) • aWja0 OUND AND JUSTIFICATION I. RECOMMENDED ACTION: 1 . Approve and authorize the Health Services Director to execute and submit to the State Department of Health Services the Application for California Health Care for Indigents Program (CHIP) funds for fiscal year 1990/91 . 2 . Authorize the Health Services Director to execute the Standard Agreement for County Health Services . II. FINANCIAL IMPACT: The County estimates it will receive State revenues as follows : FOR COUNTY OPERATED SERVICES: CHIP - Hospital 21610,989 CHIP - Other Health Care 1 ,598 ,591 Subtotal-County Operation $41209,580 FOR NON-COUNTY OPERATED SERVICES: CHIP - Hospital $ 793,435 CHIP - Physician 692 ,465 Subtotal Non-County Operation $1,485,900 TOTAL 1990/91 REVENUES $5,695,480 coNTlNvse oN wTTACNMCNT: TCS •IeNATuwC: NKcomma"DAT/ON Or cow".Y AOM IN IWrWATOw WWCOMMCNOATION Or OpARD COMMITTlt APPWOV6 OTUOI IGNA'RAIE S : wcTlen eF aewwo ON APPwoVCD AS NCCOMMCNOCD OT"C" YOTE OF SUPERVISORS 1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE UPIANIMIOUS IA84ENT ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINITES OF THE BOARD ABSENT: ABSTAIN: CF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN. C. : 9EALTH SERVICES (CONTRACTS) ATTESTED AUG 1 4 1990 AUDITOR-CONTROLLER (CLAIMS) — --— STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES PHIL BATCHELOR. CLERK OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVIScOOR(S�AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR M382 743 BY (G�'�Ypii� - .DEPUTY -^- III. DISCUSSION/BACKGROUND: The passage of the Tobacco Tax and Health Protection Act of 1988 (Proposition 99) and its implementing legislation, Assembly Bill 75 and Senate .Bill 960 and Assembly Bill 1154 made available monies to reimburse hospitals, physicians, and other providers for uncompensated care costs, for making capital improvements, and for implementing data systems. These monies are available to the County for distribution to both county operated and non-county operated entities, upon application to the State. Contained within the application are assurances by the County regarding use of these funds. These assurances apply to both the county operated services as well as the privately operated services. The funding conditions are as follows: s 1. Funds must be used to supplement existing levels of services provided and shall not be used to fund existing levels of service. Z. Counties will be required to provide, or arrange and pay for, medically necessary follow up treatment, including prescription drugs for any condition detected as part of a child health and disability prevention screen. 3. A county will have to maintain a level of financial support of county funds for health services that is at least equal to its county match and any overmatch of county funds in the 1988/89 fiscal year. 4. Monies will be accounted for as revenue in the County Health Services Plan Update and Budget Supplement and cannot be used as county matching funds for other funds received from County Health Services Branch. 5. A county will not be able to impose more stringent eligibility standards for the receipt of benefits under Section 17000 or to reduce the scope of benefits compared to those which were in effect on November S. 1988.'- 6. 988.'6. Funds will not be available for the support of health services provided to persons detained in a county or city jail or other correctional facilities. 7. Receipt of funding shall not 'relieve a county of its obligation to provide indigent health care as required by Section 17000. 8. Counties will have to maintain at least the same number of outpatient visits in the 1989/90 and 1990/91 fiscal years as were provided, either directly or through contract, in the 1988/89 fiscal year. 9. Reports will be required on indigent health care program demographic, expenditure, and utilization data in a manner that will provide an unduplicated count of users for the fiscal year.