Memorandum
Date: February 23, 2021
To: The Honorable Bruno Sabatier, Chair, Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Crystal Markytan, Social Services Director
Subject: Approve Memorandum of Understanding between Social Services and Behavioral Health Services for Residential Treatment Room and Board Payments for Welfare-to-Work Linkages Clients in the amount of $50,000 per fiscal year, and authorize the Chair to sign
Executive Summary: (include fiscal and staffing impact narrative):
Lake County Social Services (DSS) partners with Behavioral Health Services (BHS) to provide mental health and substance abuse services to CalWORKs Welfare-to-Work clients under a separate Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) recently approved by your Board. Due to regulatory changes, Room and Board costs for clients in residential treatment can no longer be covered by Medi-Cal. Through this agreement, DSS will provide reimbursement payments to BHS for the Room and Board costs incurred when a client is in residential care.
Previously, Social Services would pay facilities directly for Room and Board costs, however, the process often lead to delays in payment. With this new process, BHS is able to pay the Room and Board costs directly to the facility after billing Medi-Cal, and then seek reimbursement from DSS. Funding for this MOU comes from the CalWORKs Single Allocation.
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Recommended Action:
Approve Memorandum of Understanding between Social Services and Behavioral Health Services for Residential Treatment Room and Board Payments for Welfare-to-Work Linkages Clients for $50,000 per fiscal year, and authorize the Chair to sign.