RESOLUTION NO. _____________

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, COUNTY OF SAN MATEO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA

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RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF AN AGREEMENT
WITH HEALTH ADVOCATES, LLP

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RESOLVED, by the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Mateo, State of California, that

 

WHEREAS, the process of locating discharged patients, obtaining documents and representing the patient at an administrative hearing is very specialized, lengthy, and time consuming; and

 

WHEREAS, without a contractual arrangement for these services, many inpatient accounts would be charged to Medically Indigent Adult (MIA) funds and be otherwise uncollectible; and

 

WHEREAS, there has been presented to this Board of Supervisors for its consideration and acceptance an Agreement, reference to which is hereby made for further particulars, whereby Health Advocates shall recover third party payment sources for uncompensated medical care for San Mateo Medical Center

 

WHEREAS, this Board has been presented with a form of the Agreement and has examined and approved it as to both form and content and desires to enter into the Agreement.

 

NOW THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY DETERMINED AND ORDERED that the President of this Board of Supervisors be, and is hereby authorized and directed to execute said Agreement for and on behalf of the County of San Mateo, and the Clerk of this Board shall attest the President's signatures thereto.

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