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File #: 25-4555    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Consent Item Status: Passed
File created: 9/24/2025 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 11/4/2025 Final action: 11/4/2025
Title: APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract with Soda Health, Inc., in an amount not to exceed $2,100,000 to provide a hosted software solution for a Medicare and Medicaid supplemental benefits program for the distribution and management of restricted debit cards to Contra Costa Health Plan beneficiaries for the period November 4, 2025 through November 3, 2028, and for successive one (1) year terms thereafter until terminated. (100% Costa Health Plan Enterprise Fund II)
To: Board of Supervisors
From: Dr. Grant Colfax, Health Services Director
Report Title: Contract #77-788 with Soda Health, Inc.
?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 (i) Master Services Agreement and (ii) Statement of Work (County Contract #77-788) with Soda Health, Inc, a corporation, in an amount not to exceed $2,100,000, to provide a hosted software solution for a Medicare and Medicaid supplemental benefits program for the distribution and management of restricted debit cards to Contra Costa Health Plan (CCHP) beneficiaries for the period from November 4, 2025, through November 3, 2028, and for successive one (1) year terms thereafter until terminated.

FISCAL IMPACT:
This Contract will result in contractual service expenditures of up to $2,100,000 over a 3-year period and will be funded 100% by Costa Health Plan Enterprise Fund II.

BACKGROUND:
This Contract meets the needs of CCHP by providing its hosted software solution for CCHP's Medicare and Medicaid Services supplemental benefits program for the for the distribution and management of restricted debit cards to CCHP Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan (D-SNP) members. The Department of Health Care Services issued a revision to HCFA-AT-80-38 (BPP) on May 22, 1980, referencing 42 CFR 432.10(a) Standards of Personnel Administration, which CCHP must comply with, including a contractual requirement to establish and maintain methods for personnel administration and in conformity with standards prescribed by the US Civil Service Commission in accordance with Section 208 of the Intergovernmental Personnel Act of 1970 and the regulations on Administration of the Standards for a Merit System of Personnel Administration. CCHP must maintain a benefits distribution program that safeguards consumer protection and ensures seamless member onboarding. This Contract ...

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