To: Board of Supervisors
From: Anna Roth, Health Services Director
Report Title: Amendment Agreement #26-583-38 with Specialty Laboratories, Inc. (dba Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute)
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County Contract Amendment Agreement #26-583-38 with Specialty Laboratories, Inc. (dba Quest Diagnostic Nichols Institute), a corporation, effective January 1, 2023, to amend Contract #26-583-33 (as amended by Amendment Agreement #26-583-35), to modify the rate schedule to include additional laboratory testing services with no change to the payment limit of $5,000,000 or term of January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2024.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Approval of this Amendment will not result in additional funding and remains as budgeted at $5,000,000 and is funded 100% by Hospital Enterprise Fund I.
BACKGROUND:
Specialty Laboratories, Inc. (dba Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute) provides outside clinical laboratories testing for tests that are rarely requested and require special equipment which Contra Costa Regional Medical Center (CCRMC) does not have onsite. Contractor has been providing outside clinical laboratory testing for CCRMC since January 2007.
On November 29, 2022, the Board of Supervisors approved Contract #26-583-33 with Specialty Laboratories, Inc. (dba Quest Diagnostic Nichols Institute), in an amount not to exceed $5,000,000 for the provision of outside clinical laboratory services for the period January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2024.
On July 11, 2023, the Board of Supervisors approved Contract Amendment Agreement #26-583-35 with Specialty Laboratories, Inc. (dba Quest Diagnostic Nichols Institute), effective July 1, 2023, to amend Contract #26-583-33 to modify the rate schedule to include additional laboratory testing services with no change to the payment limit of $5,000,000 ...
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