HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1980.02.28 - 11915Miscellaneous Resolution 9328 February 28, 198n
BY: HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE - John H. Peterson, Chairperson
IN RE: MEDICARE REIMBURSEMENTS LIMITS
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the Social Security Medicare Program initiated in 1966 to
reimburse skilled nursing facilities for covered services,did so reimburse
at reasonable cost as audited by program auditors; and
WHEREAS on October 1, 1979 the Health Care Finance Administration
instituted a ceiling on inpatient routine service costs for free standing
skilled nursing facilities; and
WHEREAS the ceiling has reduced the current reimbursement rate for
routine services from a cost of $70 to a ceiling of $51.72; and
WHEREAS based upon 1979 patient days of 9,000, it will result in
reduced revenue of approximately $165,000 annually; and
WHEREAS the Health Care Finance Administration has a mechanism to
request an exception to the limits for atypical services needed and rendered; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Medical Care Facility provides specialized
and more complex atypical services as needed to inpatients; and
WHEREAS acute care hospitals in the area have confirmed the need for
the specialized and more complex atypical services provided by the Oakland
County Medical Care Facility as not being adequately available at other
skilled care facilities in Oakland County.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners support the need for a reimbursement level to cover the cost
of rendering these specialized and more complex atypical services needed
by patients admitted to the Oakland County Medical Care Facility,
HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE
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- Joseph R. Montante, M.D,, Vice Chairperson
HEREBY APPROVE THE FOPFGOING RESC
#9328 February 28, 1980
Moved by Montante supported by Fortino the resolution be adopted.
Moved by Montante supported by Fortino the resolution be amended in the
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED paragraph to read: "NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVE.D
that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners support the need for an ex-
ception to the proposed reimbursement limit from the social security medicare
program to cover the cost of rendering these specialized and more complex
atypical services needed by patients admitted to the.Oakland County Medical
Care Facility."
AYES: Gabler, Gorsline, Hobart, Hoot, Kasper, Kelly, Lewand, McDonald,
Moffitt, Montante, Moore, Murphy, Patterson, Perinoff, Pernick, Price, Wilcox,
Caddell, DiGiovanni, Dunaskiss, Fortino. (21)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the amendment carried,
Vote on resolution as amended:
AYES: Gorsline, Hobart, Hoot, Kasper, Kelly, Lewand, McDonald, Moffitt,
Montante, Moore, Murphy, Patterson, Perinoff, Pernick, Price, Wilcox, Caddell,,
DiGiovanni, Dunaskiss, Fortino, Gabler. (21)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution, as amended,
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
Miscellaneous Resolution #9328 adopted by the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners at their meeting held on February 28, 1980
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with the original 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
28th February 80
Lynn D.
Clerk