Type of Jurisdictions Involved
County
Regional Health Center
Specific Jurisdictions Involved
- Outagamie County,
- Fox Cities Community Health Center
County
Outagamie
Region
Northeastern
Type of Agreement
Consolidation of Services
Implementation and Incubation
May 26, 2009 MOU adopted
Factors Involved
- Outagamie County had to subsidize many private HMO's and State's Medicaid program in order to deliver needed services to some residents since Medicaid only reimburses 58% of county costs for mental health services
- Fox Cities Community Health Center was seeing Outagamie County residents with no form of 3rd party health coverage and thus receiving no reimbursement for services
- Fox Cities Community Health Center experiencing high no-show rates for mental health services and preoducitivity levels of clinicians low
- Long waits for residents to get appointments to receive mental health services
- Outagamie County helping pay for large amount of medications for county residents at $160,000 per year
Benefits
- Reduced costs
- More efficient and comprehensive services
- Improved service delivery
Results
- Great financial benefits - Savings in staffing costs, medication costs
- Increased Medicaid revenues
- Reduction in medical costs in emergency room visits and the like
- Greater efficiencies and improved service delivery - shorter wait times, decrease in no-show rate, increased worker productivity
Project Contact
John Rathman
Outagamie County
Deputy Director of Health and Human Services
rathmajs@co.outagmie.wi.us
Agreement
Outagmie_County_Fox_Cities_Mental_Health_MOU_0.pdf
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