Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes an expenditure of $30,365.41 for the Division of Police to pay prisoner medical bills to Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospital. The Division of Police is responsible for medical care provided to prisoners in police custody. The Division of Police works with Wellcomp 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, Wellcomp, who verifies all the charges on the invoices and negotiates the cost with the hospital staff.
Contract Compliance: Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospitals 31-4394942 expires September 29, 2016
Emergency Designation: Emergency legislation is requested for this ordinance in order to pay prisoner medical bills immediately.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes an expenditure of $30,365.41 from the General Fund for payment of prisoner medical bills to Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospital. The Division of Police budgeted $550,000.00 in the 2016 General Fund budget for medical services for prisoners. The division spent or encumbered $195,987.71 in 2015.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Public Safety to pay prisoner medical bills to Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospital for the Division of Police; to authorize the expenditure of $30,365.41 from the General Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($30,365.41)
Body
WHEREAS, pursuant to the City Attorney's office, the Division of Police findings, and Wellcomp, the Division of Police is responsible for the medical bills of individuals who were incarcerated or in the custody of the Division of Police during the specified dates of services on the medical invoices ; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Police, Department of Public Safety, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director to make payment of medical invoic...
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