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Consider recommendations regarding a Crestwood Behavioral Health, Inc. Second Amendment to the Fiscal Years (FYs) 2021-2024 Services Agreement and FYs 2024-2026 Renewal Services Agreement for Adult Crisis Residential Mental Health Services, as follows:
a) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute a Second Amendment to the Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Crestwood Behavioral Health, Inc. (not a local vendor) (BC No. 21-034) to add contingency payment and cost settlement provisions and incorporate Medicare Practitioner billing and California Department of Health Care Services rate changes with no change to the maximum contract amount of $4,107,865.00, inclusive of inclusive of $1,350,000.00 for FY 2021-2022, $1,350,000.00 for FY 2022-2023, and $1,407,865.00 for FY 2023-2024, for the period of July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2024;
i) Delegate to the Director of the Department of Behavioral Wellness or designee the authority to increase the daily bed rate and incorporate new codes and make fee-for-service rate changes or updates and to reimburse on a cost reimbursement basis for Medi-Cal fee-for-service programs per Exhibit B of the FYs 2021-2024 Agreement, all without altering the maximum contract amount and without requiring the Board’s approval of an amendment of the FYs 2021-2024 Agreement, subject to the Board’s ability to rescind this delegated authority at any time;
b) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute an Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with Crestwood Behavioral Health, Inc. (not a local vendor) for the provision of adult crisis residential mental health services in south Santa Barbara County for a maximum contract amount not to exceed $2,870,400.00, inclusive of $1,435,200.00 per FY, for the period of July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2026;
i) Delegate to the Director of the Department of Behavioral Wellness or designee the authority to suspend, delay, or interrupt the services under the FY 2024-2026 Agreement for convenience per Section 20 of the FYs 2024-2026 Agreement; make immaterial changes to the FYs 2024-2026 Agreement per Section 26; change staffing requirements per Exhibit A-2; reallocate funds between funding sources, increase the daily bed rate, and incorporate new codes and make fee-for-service rate changes or updates and to reimburse on a cost reimbursement basis for Medi-Cal fee-for-service programs, reallocate between contract allocations for the incentive payment, and activate the Contingency Invoicing Plan per Exhibit B; amend the program goals, outcomes, and measures per Exhibit E, all without altering the maximum contract amount and without requiring the Board’s approval of an amendment of the Agreement, subject to the Board’s ability to rescind this delegated authority at any time; and
c) Determine that the above actions are government funding mechanisms or other government fiscal activities that do not involve any commitment to any specific project that may result in a potentially significant physical impact on the environment and are therefore not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15378(b)(4) of the CEQA Guidelines.