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Lassen County supervisors table DHCS behavioral-health contracts after members say packet arrived too late
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Supervisors delayed approval of two multi‑hundred‑page agreements with the state Department of Health Care Services after several members said they lacked time to review roughly 700 pages of materials; staff warned delaying could risk state payments and services.
Lassen County supervisors on Thursday deferred action on two large contracts with the California Department of Health Care Services covering specialty mental‑health and drug‑medical‑health services after several board members said they had not had time to read the hundreds of pages in the packet.
Behavioral‑health staff described the two agreements — contract numbers referenced in materials as 25‑5135 (specialty mental health) and 25‑5100 (drug‑medical health) — as largely regulatory documents that counties must implement. The board was…
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