Title:
Title
Agreement for Recovery of Administration Costs for Implementation and Recovery of Ground Emergency Medical Transportation (GEMT) Payments to the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District (Two-Thirds Vote Required)
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FileID
File ID: 2019-00209
Location
Location: Citywide
Recommendation:
Recommendation
Pass a Motion: 1) authorizing the City Manager, or his designee, to approve payments exceeding the $100,000 threshold on contract 2016-0204 with Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District (SMFD) for costs associated with Medi-Cal fee-for-service transports that occurred during the period July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2017; and 2) suspending the competitive bidding by two-thirds vote.
Contact: Iysha Jenkins, Senior Accountant Auditor, (916) 808-8569, Fire Department
Body
Presenter: None.
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Contract 2016-0204 with Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District (SMFD)
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: The Fire Department is a provider of ground emergency medical transportation (GEMT) and is eligible to participate in the Medi-Cal GEMT Supplemental Reimbursement Program. The State of California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) is responsible for oversight of the program and has designated Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District (SMFD) as the "host" entity. As such, SMFD is responsible for the collecting associated fees assessed from the participating agencies to reimburse DHCS for costs to administer the GEMT program.
Participating agencies pay SMFD a 1% administrative fee based on reimbursements received from the State. The reimbursements received by participating agencies are determined by the number of allowable transports. Additionally, participating agencies pay SMFD the transporter's share of administrative costs, which are based upon the administrative costs per fee for service (FFS) Medi-Cal transport, multiplied by the GEMT transporter's number of FFS Medi-Cal transports for each reporting period. T...
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