To: Board of Supervisors
From: Dr. Grant Colfax, Health Services Director
Report Title: Terminate Contract #77-781-1 with Wider Circle, Inc.
Recommendation: Recommendation of the County Administrator
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RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to issue a 30-day advance written notice to Wider Circle, Inc., a corporation, to terminate Contract #77-781, to provide enrollment services for the Contra Costa Health Plan’s (CCHP) Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan (D-SNP), effective at the close of business on December 31, 2026.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no fiscal impact for this action. This Contract was funded 100% by CCHP Enterprise Fund II revenues.
BACKGROUND:
On January 1, 2026, CCHP launched a D-SNP for patients who qualify for both Medicare and Medi-Cal assistance. Part of administering a D-SNP requires CCHP to provide supplemental benefits. To ensure CCHP has a path to D-SNP enrollment, it needs service contracts that can meet these requirements and help facilitate enrollment. As such, CCHP is seeking knowledge of other Managed Care Plans with experience operating a successful D-SNP. If CCHP does not establish a mechanism for enrollment, it faces the possibility of zero D-SNP enrollment, which poses a serious financial and operational risk. Under this Contract, Wider Circle, Inc. will provide services to launch its Connect for Life Program for CCHP, helping CCHP minimize the impact of operational changes on its patients to ensure a healthy D-SNP population that has many social and clinical risks.
A summary of service contract deliverables, including measurable outcomes required of the Contractor to be monitored by the department, including in compliance with Section III (B)(7) of the Purchasing Policy include Contractor’s successful design, implementation, and delivery of the program and in compliance with the Health Information Probability and Accountability Act of 1996. This Contract request was approved by Contra Cos...
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