2005 NS Health Renewal of Consolidated Agreement Between Human Services

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Consolidated Agreement - Final G. RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE STATE 13 1. The State shall provide to the Department regular training, and, upon request, technical assistance in the preparation of the Consolidated Agreement, Local Health Department — Local Appropriations Activity Budgets and Agreement Addenda. 2. The State shall conduct liaison activities with local health departments for general problem solving and technical support. The State shall provide high -level consultation, technical assistance, and advice to local health directors. Broad content areas include, but are not limited to: • Board Relations • Management Teams/Staffing • Policy Development • Program Planning and Implementation • General Administrative Consultation, including consultation and technical assistance in budgeting, fiscal, administrative and management support topic areas. 4. The State shall provide coordination and support for the education and training for the public health workforce. 5. The State shall provide technical assistance and consultant services, as required, for specific health program areas, including providing guidance and consultation about specific patient clinical issues, when requested. 6. The State shall provide course coordination, consultation, and technical assistance on nursing practice and standards, policies and procedures that cross program. 7. The State shall provide support and consultation to the public health workforce in local health departments, including regional public health consultants who offer technical assistance and training on professional development; program planning, program evaluation and quality assurance; data collection; and community assessment to local health educators for all public health programs. 8. The State shall act as the principal liaison between the public health system and the state's Medicaid agency on issues related to Medicaid reimbursed services provided by the state and local public health agencies. 9. The State shall cooperate with the state Medicaid agency to provide technical assistance, guidance, and consultation to local health programs to ensure compliance with Medicaid policies and procedures. 10. The State shall design and implement annual cost studies to ensure appropriate cost -based Medicaid reimbursement. 11. The State shall work with the NC Division of Information Resource Management to provide automated systems and facilities via the Health Services Information System (HSIS). HSIS is currently used to create and submit Medicaid claims, perform accounts receivables, and to collect other DPH program- related data from client, service, encounter and other data on behalf of the local health departments and other public health programs. The State shall provide business and technical support for the automated systems to the users of these systems. 12. The State shall provide support and consultation to ensure that HSIS can generate standard transactions for public health Medicaid claims submitted on behalf of the local health departments per HIPAA [the Administrative Simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (P.L. 104 -91) subparts I through N, which define the standards for specific transactions.]