To: Board of Directors
From: Anna Roth, Health Services Director
Report Title: Payment for Subscription Provided by Virtusa Corporation
☒Recommendation of the County Administrator ☐ Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Auditor-Controller, or designee, to pay the Virtusa Corporation up to $45,617 for compliance reporting software subscription for the period from January 1, 2024 through December 31, 2024.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Approval of this action will result in an expenditure of up to $45,617 and will be funded by Hospital Enterprise Fund I revenues.
BACKGROUND:
Virtusa Corporation’s CareDiscovery Quality Measures (CDQM) software is used by Contra Costa Regional Medical Center (CCRMC) and Health Centers for compliance reporting to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The data submitted through the platform meets the requirements established by CMS' Inpatient and Outpatient Hospital Quality Reporting programs for clinical quality measures and accreditation purposes. Contra Costa Health Information Technology staff had been working with Virtusa Corporation since early 2023 to establish an agreement ahead of the December 2023 software subscription expiration. Unfortunately, an agreement could not be reached with Virtusa regarding the business associate addendum.
CCRMC and Health Centers require access to the CDQM software to ensure compliance reporting requirements are met while an agreement with a new vendor for 2025 is established.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
If this action is not approved, CCRMC will not have access to the software needed to submit data for compliance reporting to CMS.