Title:
Budget Amendment - Health Department Revenue Increase
Summary
ACTION:
1. Recognize, receive and appropriate an increase in revenue in the amount of $29,500 from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
2. Recognize, receive, and appropriate an increase in revenue in the amount of $70,778 from NC Division of Public Health - Injury and Violence Prevention Branch
Staff Contact: Gibbie Harris, MSPH, BSN - Health Director
Presentation: No
BACKGROUND/JUSTIFICATION:
1. Federal regulations require school districts to provide a free and appropriate education to all students. Students with disabilities require extra support and school districts must spend local funds to provide their services. School districts are able to recover a portion of these expenses for Medicaid-eligible students with current Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) by billing Medicaid. To bill Medicaid, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) must meet the physician authorization of services requirement for North Carolina Local Education Agency (LEA) students with IEPs. The funding from CMS will go to the Health Department and be used to pay for a licensed medical professional to provide monthly medical authorization necessary for CMS' Medicaid cost recovery for Medicaid-eligible students.
2. The Department has been awarded an allocation for Emergency Overdose: Local Mitigation to the Opioid Crisis. This award is federal funding, which is allocated to local governments through the state Division of Public Health. The purpose of the funding is to implement strategies to prevent fatal and non-fatal opioid overdoses, increase access and linkages to care services for the most vulnerable populations, and build local capacity to respond to the opioid epidemic.
PROCUREMENT BACKGROUND:
N/A
POLICY IMPACT:
N/A
FISCAL IMPACT:
This adjustment is an increase of $29,500 in other revenue and associated expenses, and an increase of $70,778 in federal revenue and associated expense...
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