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Jefferson County approves FY2025 schedule for provider participation fund, authorizes modest admin fees
Summary
After a public hearing, the Jefferson County commissioners approved the FY2025 schedule for the county Health Care Provider Participation Fund and authorized $10,000 for county administrative costs and up to $500 for required public notices; staff outlined how local provider contributions will be transferred to state health programs.
Jefferson County commissioners on the record opened a public hearing and approved the schedule for the county Health Care Provider Participation Fund for fiscal year 2025, and authorized $10,000 in administrative reimbursement to the county plus up to $500 for newspaper postings.
County staff explained how the program works: "What it is is the, there's 5 entities locally that, that will do 6% of their net patient revenue, make that into quarterly contributions, and then that is used, for intergovernmental transfers to the state of Texas for different programs like Uncompensated Care," said Speaker 3 during the hearing. Staff identified programs funded through the transfers to the Texas Health and Human Services that include uncompensated care, CHIRP/HARP components and support for graduate medical education at Baptist.
Speaker 3 also said the county will retain a modest administrative reimbursement and limited posting costs: "we're gonna put in there... to give the back to the county $10,000 to help cover some of the admin costs for the time spent, and then the up to, I think, it's $600 that I put in there for the, postings in the newspaper for, like, this required posting so that the, county is not out that much." The commissioners adopted the schedule and the budgeted $10,000 administrative fee and approved up to $500 (as recorded) for required postings.
The approval followed the public hearing required by the Texas Health and Safety Code, chapter 300, and authorizes the county to collect and transmit provider contributions to the state as intergovernmental transfers for the specified programs for FY2025. The county also approved a related large intergovernmental transfer to the state controller (recorded separately on the agenda) to support the uncompensated care program.
The hearing was opened and closed during the regular meeting; no separate public testimony was recorded in the transcript. The matter was approved by voice vote and recorded as unanimous by the presiding speaker. The county did not provide a detailed list of the five contributing entities in the hearing record included in the transcript; that detail is "not specified."
