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Agenda Item Number <br /> <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH <br />AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY <br /> <br />Meeting Date: August 26, 2015 <br /> <br />Agenda Item Subject: FY 2015-16 Fee Schedule & Requested Changes <br /> <br />Attachment(s): Fee Schedule & Requested Changes <br /> <br />Staff/Board Member Reporting: Colleen Bridger, Health Director <br /> <br />Purpose/Recommended Action: ___ Action/Approve <br /> _x_ Action/Approve & forward to Board of Commissioners <br /> ___ Information with possible action <br /> ___ Accept as information <br /> ___ Revise & schedule for future action <br /> <br /> <br />Summary Information: <br /> <br />The Health Department reviews fee schedules on an annual basis through the budget approval <br />process; however, the state and private vaccine distributors have since increased rates and <br />clinic providers wish to make use of new or more descriptive procedure codes. In addition, the <br />Department would like to eliminate Environmental Health well water testing fees for medical <br />referrals. The proposed changes are detailed below: <br /> <br />Personal Health <br />Personal Health requests the addition of new fees for multiple procedures codes. These <br />procedures may have been in use at other times under different procedure codes or are more <br />descriptive than current procedure codes that are in use. The division also requests to charge <br />fees for new vaccine types and brands on the market. Finally, Personal Health requests to <br />increase the fees for multiple vaccines that have increased in cost since the last fee change; in <br />many cases this was in 2009 and 2012. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />