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Recommendation to adopt Specifications RFP LW19-074 and authorize City Manager, or designee, to enter into a contract and execute any necessary amendments thereto with Rehab West, Inc. (RWI) to provide Medical Case Management services for the City of Long Beach Workers' Compensation Program, in the amount of $100,800, with a 20% contingency of $20,160, for a total annual contract amount not to exceed $120,960, for a period of two years, with the option to renew for three additional one-year periods, at the discretion of the City Manager. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is requested to enter into a contract with Rehab West, Inc. to provide
Medical Case Management services for the City of Long Beach Workers' Compensation
Program. In January 2019, the professional services of Maureen Kohl Mahoney &
Associates were enlisted to initiate a Request for Proposal (RFP) process to select a
managed care vendor to provide Medical Case Management (MCM) through the City's
Workers' Compensation Program.
The Medical Case Management services to be provided by Rehab West, Inc. assists the
City in providing timely, quality medical services to the City's Workers' Compensation
Program upon direct referral, in the form of telephonic, field, or task-based case
management. These services provide direct nursing services for the management of
treatment for injured workers, including but not limited to, long-term disability, severe or
catastrophic injuries, or intervention to assist in return to work.
All eligible City employees are provided the best medical care available at the earliest time
indicated, in addition to all appropriate workers' compensation indemnity benefits. In
tandem, the City has a fiduciary responsibility to its citizens to minimize medical and
indemnity expenditures. Partnering with established managed care service providers is
critical to achieving cost containment goals.
Under the umbrella of managed care services, MCM was evaluated with the ...
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