HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 11271984 - 1.88 TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Contra
FROM: Phil Batchelor, County Administrator Costa
DATE: November 16, 1984 County
SUBJECT: Authorization to Pay Retroactive Pharmacy Bills
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
Authorize the Auditor-Controller to make payment in the amount of $2,516.53 to
Sycamore Pharmacy in Concord for services provided to mental health patients
during 1983.
BACKGROUND:
Patients at Phoenix Programs ' Nierika House need to have their prescriptions filled.
For awhile, the County Hospital pharmacy provided the medications through the
Concord Mental Health Clinic, This was found to be too expensive so arrangements
were made to have the prescriptions filled at the Sycamore Pharmacy in Concord, a
facility with which the Contra Costa Health Plan has a contract. Not realizing
that many of these mental health patients were not Health Plan members, the
prescription charges were initially billed to the Health Plan. In reviewing
charges made to them, the Health Plan recognized that they were being billed
inappropriately for these patients.
Because of the delay which has occurred between the time services were provided
and the discovery was made that the charges did not belong to the Health Plan and
alternative procedures were developed and put in place, the Purchasing Agent has
declined to pay the bills without specific Board authorization, which is hereby
sought.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE: Y / , X",( " L/�lE7/►"�'
X RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
_X APPROVE OTHER p�
SIGNATURE(S)
ACTION OF BOARD ON November 27, 1984 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ) I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
AYES: NOES: AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
County Administrator OF SUPERVISO ON THE DATE SHOWN
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Auditor-Controller Attest:
Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the Board
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