HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 08052008 - SD.1 Aug 4", 2008
Federal Glover
Board of supervisor
Contra Costa County,
California,
Dear Supervisor Glover,
Re: Denial for enrollment as provider in Contra Costa County Health Plan
Our names are Saifi Ramwala and Steve Boss, we are both registered pharmacist with the state of
California and we have opened a retail pharmacy, City Center Pharmacy, in Pittsburg, CA. The pharmacy is
located at the corner of East Leland and Loveridge Road, across the parking lot from Pittsburg Health Center.
City Center Pharmacy will be the only independent pharmacy in the Contra Costa county between
Brentwood, and Concord. Starting next week we will be serving the people of this county and specially the
residents of the city of Pittsburg. We would be able to serve these people very well because of our location,
and delivery service that will be provided to the local area patients. Also there is a bus stop right outside our
pharmacy building to accommodate people without private mode of transportation.
For past three weeks we have been trying to contact Contra Costa County Health Plan to enroll us as
one of their pharmacy providers to service their patient. We were contacted by their Pharmacy Benefits
Manager, Perform Rx, saying that the plan no longer accepts any providers as of last month. Dr Curt Le at
CCHP was also contacted with no avail. We have not been able to speak to the CEO, Patricia Tanquary even
after many attempts.
CCHP has 65.000 members, and they are actively enrolling more members from Medical and
Medicare programs, who we would not be able to serve and would not be able to compete for their business.
According to a memo from Contra Costa Health Services, as of July 1"2006, outpatient pharmacies
in their facilities in Richmond, Pittsburg and Martinez were closed. There are 43 pharmacies where those
patients are advised to go. After going through the list of these pharmacies we found out that 7 of them are in
Alameda County, 2 in San Joaquin County, 1 in county of Orange, 1 in Solano County and 1 pharmacy in
Placer County. These locations are inconvenient for patients in Contra Costa County.
In these tough times of high gas prices and increased living expenses there are many needy people
who do not have mode of transportation except for buses and walking, who have difficulties in going to
pharmacies far away from the health centers. Only 7 pharmacies from the list are within 4 mile area of the
Pittsburg health center and none of them offer delivery service.
As stated before we are at an ideal location across the parking lot of Pittsburg Health Center, to serve
the residents of Contra Costa County, and because we are an independent pharmacy the patients will be
provided best service due to our direct vested interest in the pharmacy.
We urge you to use the influence of your office to see that our pharmacy gets the opportunity to serve
the people in the Contra Costa county who use Contra Costa Health Plan.
Sincerely yours,
Saifi Raniwala S' ,
Steve Boss
City Center Pharmacy
1270 E. Leland Rd, #102
Pittsburg, CA. 94565
Cell: (925)813-0389
Work: (925)432-9770
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