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Committee forwards retroactive DPH behavioral health contracts amid questions on 12% contingency
Summary
The committee advanced retroactive behavioral-health service contracts totaling roughly $674 million (including a 12% contingency under discussion). Budget analysts recommended specifying contractors, amounts and annual reporting on the use of contingencies before Board approval; DPH defended contingency as administrative flexibility for COLAs, board add-backs and transfers among contractors.
The Budget & Finance Committee considered a package of retroactive contracts between the Department of Public Health and 19 nonprofit contractors and the University of California, San Francisco, covering community behavioral health services for the period July 1, 2010 through Dec. 31, 2015.
Budget analyst Harvey Rose summarized a lengthy review of the item, reporting that the department’s original submission totaled roughly $790.4 million and the revised amount…
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