File #: 3619    Version: 0 Name: Inmate medical accounts - settlement with St. Luke's Hospital.
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 3/21/2005 In control: (R)Health and Justice Committee
On agenda: 3/21/2005 Final action: 4/4/2005
Title: AN ORDINANCE appropriating $93,250.00 from the unappropriated surplus of the 2005 Health Fund and authorizing the County Counselor to execute a settlement with St. Luke's Hospital of Kansas City, Missouri, a division of the St. Luke's Health System, to cover the cost of two inmate medical accounts at a cost to the County not to exceed $93,250.00.
Sponsors: Rhonda Shoemaker
Indexes: HEALTH FUND, INMATE MEDICAL ACCOUNTS

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

 

Title

AN ORDINANCE appropriating $93,250.00 from the unappropriated surplus of the 2005 Health Fund and authorizing the County Counselor to execute a settlement with St. Luke's Hospital of Kansas City, Missouri, a division of the St. Luke's Health System, to cover the cost of two inmate medical accounts at a cost to the County not to exceed        $93,250.00.

 

Intro

ORDINANCE  # 3619,   March 21, 2005

 

INTRODUCED BY Rhonda L. Shoemaker,  County Legislator

 

 

Body

WHEREAS, the County and St. Luke's Hospital of Kansas City, Missouri, a division of the St. Luke's Health System, desire to enter into an Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein, wherein St. Luke's Hospital will accept the sum of $93,250.00 as final and full settlement of two inmate medical accounts; and,

 

WHEREAS, the inmates were referred by the medical services provider for the Department of Corrections without the consent and knowledge of the County and St. Luke's Hospital rendered medical services without realizing that such consent was required; and,

 

WHEREAS, in order to fund this expenditure, an appropriation is necessary; and,

 

WHEREAS, the County Counselor recommends said appropriation; now therefore,

 

BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following appropriation from the unappropriated surplus of the 2005 Health Fund be and hereby is made:

 

DEPARTMENT/DIVISION                                          CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION                      FROM                        TO  

Health Fund

002-2810                     Unappropriated Surplus                     $93,250

 

Inmate Health Care

002-2602-6720                     Settlement and Judgements                                          $93,250

                      

 

and,

 

BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the Agreement is hereby approved and that the County Counselor be and hereby  is authorized to execute the settlement agreement on behalf of the County; and,

 

BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the Director of the Department of Finance is authorized to make all payments, including final payment on the settlement agreement.

 

 

Enacted and Approved

Effective Date:  This ordinance shall be effective immediately upon its signature by the County Executive.

 

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

___________________________                                          _____________________________

Acting Chief Deputy County Counselor                                                               County Counselor

 

                     I hereby certify that the attached Ordinance, Ordinance #3619 introduced on March 21, 2005,  was duly passed on ________April 4_____________, 2005 by the Jackson County Legislature.  The votes thereon were as follows:

 

                     Yeas            8                                                                               Nays           0                 

 

                     Abstaining            0                                                          Absent             1           

                               

This Ordinance is hereby transmitted to the County Executive for her signature.

 

____________________                                          ________________________________

Date                                                                                                         Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature

 

I hereby approve the attached Ordinance # 3619.

 

____________________                                          ________________________________

Date                                                                                                         Katheryn J. Shields, County Executive

 

 

Fiscal Note

Funds sufficient for this appropriation are available from the source indicated below.

ACCOUNT NUMBER:                      002 2810

ACCOUNT TITLE:                                          Health Fund

Unappropriated Surplus

NOT TO EXCEED:                                          $93,250.00

 

I hereby certify that there is a balance otherwise unencumbered to the credit of the appropriation to which the expenditure is chargeable, and there is a cash balance otherwise unencumbered in the treasury to the credit of the fund from which payment is to be made, each sufficient to provide for the obligation which herein authorized.

ACCOUNT NUMBER:                      002 2602 6720

ACCOUNT TITLE:                                          Health Fund

Inmate Health Care

Settlements and Judgements

NOT TO EXCEED:                                          $93,250.00

 

______________________                                          _________________________________

Date                                                                                                                              Director of the Department of Finance