Drafter
Clerk 01/17/2013
Title
AN ORDINANCE authorizing the execution of an interagency agreement between King County, the city of Seattle and the state of Washington for potential participation in a demonstration project of a financially integrated care model.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. On April 25, 2012, the Washington state Department of Social and Health Services, Aging and Disability Services Administration, and the Washington state Health Care Authority jointly submitted a proposal, titled HealthPath Washington, to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to create a model that improves the quality, coordination and cost-effectiveness of the Medicare and Medicaid system for individuals eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid.
2. The HealthPath Washington proposal includes a strategy that provides a financially integrated model in which medical, mental health, substance abuse and long-term care services would be purchased through a managed care organization for individuals dually eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare.
3. Approximately thirty-one thousand one hundred fifteen individuals in King County are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid.
4. The mental health, chemical abuse and dependency services division of the department of community and human services provides mental health and chemical dependency services through a contract with the state to approximately five thousand persons in King County eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid.
5. The city of Seattle Aging and Disability Services, Area Agency on Aging provides case management services through a contract with the state to approximately five thousand six hundred persons eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid in King County.
6. The 2012 Washington state supplemental budget, Section 201(3)(b), Chapter 7, Laws of Washington 2012, provides that participation in the HealthPath demonstration project shall be limited to persons who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid who vo...

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