Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Colleen Chawla, Chief, San Mateo County Health
Chester J. Kunnappilly, MD, Chief Executive Officer, San Mateo Medical Center
Subject: Agreement with Peninsula Pathologists Medical Group, Inc. to Provide Pathology Services
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing an agreement with Peninsula Pathologists Medical Group, Inc. to provide pathology services, for the term of September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028, in an amount not to exceed $2,600,000.
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BACKGROUND:
San Mateo County provides necessary medical care to financially vulnerable patients. Peninsula Pathologists Medical Group, Inc. (PPMG) provides professional and nonprofessional pathology services to San Mateo Medical Center (SMMC) and has done so since 2005. PPMG provides anatomic and clinical pathology services, including technical and medical director services. Technical services refer to certain pathology laboratory equipment, supplies, and personnel provided to SMMC, so that needed anatomic and clinical pathology services can be rendered. To support maintenance of its state hospital license, SMMC is obligated to offer pathology services as a component of operating its clinical laboratory under "Title 22" (22 Cal. Code Regs. ? 70243(c)).
DISCUSSION:
SMMC and PPMG have agreed in principle to renew PPMG's contract for another three-year term on the same terms as the expiring agreement between the parties, except that Medical Director duties in the proposed agreement will be revised and clarified. The present $866,104 annual cost of the contract will remain the same and will not increase during the upcoming term of the renewed agreement.
The rates in the proposed renewed contract are within fair market value according to VMG Health, a nationally recognized medical services valuation firm that relies upon multiple industry-standard provider compensation surveys and ...
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