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I <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No 11_A <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: September 15, 1998 <br />SUBJECT: Agreement between Orange County and Piedmont Health Services, Inc. for a <br />Medicaid Intake Caseworker <br />DEPARTMENT: Social Services <br />ATTACHMENT(S) <br />Contract with Piedmont Health Services, Inc. <br />PUBLIC HEARING YES NO x <br />BUDGET AMENDMENT <br />REQUIRED YES NO x <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Marti Pryor -Cook, ext. 2802 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBER <br />Hillsborough 732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968 -4501 <br />Mebane 227 -2031 <br />Durham 688 -7331 <br />PURPOSE: <br />To consider a contract between Orange County and Piedmont Health Services, Inc. for one <br />Medicaid Intake Caseworker to be based at Piedmont's Carrboro facility. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Piedmont Health Services, Inc. has requested that one full -time Income Maintenance Caseworker <br />position be created to conduct interviews and initiate Medicaid applications for patients at their <br />Carrboro facility. Their Prospect Hill clinic and UNC Hospitals have already contracted for such <br />positions as a way to make Medicaid assistance more readily available to eligible citizens and to <br />increase collection rates for indigent patients. The Contract stipulates that Piedmont Health <br />Services, Inc. pays 100% of the County's share of the costs for this worker, which include salary, <br />benefits, and any other necessary expense. Supervisory and indirect costs have been waived. In <br />return, Piedmont Health Services, Inc. will accept N. C. Health Choice applications for Orange <br />County and serve as a designated Health Choice application site. <br />RECOMMENDATION: <br />Creation of a new Income Maintenance Caseworker II position and approval of the Contract with <br />authorization for the Chair to sign. <br />