Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes an expenditure of $42,285.94 for the Division of Police to pay prisoner medical bills to Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospitals. The Division of Police is responsible for medical care provided to prisoners in police custody. The Division of Police works with Careworks to determine if individuals were incarcerated or in the custody of the Division of Police during the specified dates of services on the medical invoices. These invoices are also reviewed by our current contractor, Careworks, who verifies all the charges on the invoices and negotiates the cost with the hospital staff.
Contract Compliance Number: 314394942, expires September 29, 2016.
Emergency Designation: Emergency legislation is requested for this ordinance in order to pay prisoner medical bills in a timely fashion.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes an expenditure of $42,285.94 from the General Fund for payment of prisoner medical bills to Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospitals. The Division of Police budgeted $811,735.00 in the 2014 General Fund budget for medical services for prisoners. With this expenditure, the Division has encumbered or spent approximately $430,906.00 for prisoner medical claims in 2014. The Division spent or encumbered approximately $902,350.58 for prisoner medical bills in 2013.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Public Safety to pay prisoner medical bills to Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospitals for the Division of Police; to authorize the expenditure of $42,285.94 from the General Fund; and to declare an emergency.
($42, 285.94)
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WHEREAS, individuals were incarcerated or in the custody of the Division of Police during the specified dates of services on the medical invoices; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the City Attorney's office, the Division of Police findings, and Careworks, the Division is responsible for the medical bills; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of th...
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