HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1985.06.13 - 11008ert Price, Jr., County' commissioner
Disfirict #8
February 14, 1985
Miscellaneous Resolution #85045
BY: Walter Moore, County Commissioner, District #7
Hubert Price, Jr., County Commissioner, District #8
IN RE: SOCIAL SERVICES - REQUIRE HMO CONTRACTS TO SHOW HEALTH
SERVICE LOCATIONS
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, the Michigan Department of Social Services is encouraging
public assistance recipients to enroll in Health Maintenance Organizations
(HMO's) as a cost containment measure; and
WHEREAS, HMO's provide services through designated clinics, hospitals
or contractual providers; and
WHEREAS, an HMO service delivery area is based upon the assumption
that patients have regular access to transporation, their sales promotions are
based on this assumption; and
WHEREAS, public assistance recipients frequently do not have access to
reliable public or private transportation.
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners recommend to the Michigan Department of Social Services that
future contracts for medical services through HMO's require the provider to
include in their promotional literature a map showing the location of primary
and secondary health care services available through the HMO; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that all public assistance recipients shall
be provided with this literature at least thirty days prior to the effective date
of coverage, and shall have the opportunity to withdraw from enrollment within
ten days after enrollment without interruption of Medicaid benefits.
Mr. Chairman, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution,
Walter Moore, County Commissioner
District #7
REPORT June 13, 1985
BY: HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE--Nancy McConnell, Chairperson
IN RE: Miscellaneous Resolution #85045, Social Services--Require HMO
Contracts to Show Health Service Locations
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies, and Gentlemen:
The Health and Human Resources Committee, having reviewed Miscellaneous
Resolution #85045, Social Services--Require HMO Contracts to Show Health
Service Locations, reports with the recommendation that the resolution be
adopted.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Health and Human Resources Committee,
1 move the acceptance of the foregoing report.
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CountyElerkiRegister of Deeds
#85045 June 13, 1985
Moved by McConnell supported by Webb the report be accepted.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the report was accepted.
Moved by McConnell supported by Aaron the resolution be adopted.
AYES: McDonald, McPherson, Moffitt, Moore, Nelson, Olsen, Page, Pernick, Price,
Rewold, Skarritt, Webb, Wilcox, Aaron, Calandra, Doyon, Fortino, Gosling, Hassberger,
Hobart, R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn, Lanni, Law, McConnell. (25)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and having a seal,
do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of the above numbered
Miscellaneous Resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting held on June
with the orginial record thereof now remaining in my office, and
that it is a true and correct transcript therefrom, and of the
whole thereof.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
this