i'm fred russo from the budget legislative analyst office. i'm going to speak today about our review of current efforts to increase medi-cal reimbursement for behavioral health services. i do have some slides. i will share here. and, are those showing up? >> yeah. we can see it. >> okay. great. so supervisor melgar asked our office to do a review of medi-cal administrative costs and reimbursement practices and the city's behavioral health services division of the department of public health and the background of the question was this information that supervisor melgar mentioned and the other counties had been increasing their reimbursement through this mechanism called mental health m.a.a. or medi-cal health and administrative activities. it's a charging mechanism, reimbursement mechanism. so just the background on that fiscal year 2018-19. only 12 of 58 california counties filed claims using this mechanism. as mr. murell mentioned, san francisco discontinued claiming against this in fiscal year of 2015-16. but we did find that alemeda county

i'm fred russo from the budget legislative analyst office. i'm going to speak today about our review of current efforts to increase medi-cal reimbursement for behavioral health services. i do have some slides. i will share here. and, are those showing up? >> yeah. we can see it. >> okay. great. so supervisor melgar asked our office to do a review of medi-cal administrative costs and reimbursement practices and the city's behavioral health services division of the department of public health and the background of the question was this information that supervisor melgar mentioned and the other counties had been increasing their reimbursement through this mechanism called mental health m.a.a. or medi-cal health and administrative activities. it's a charging mechanism, reimbursement mechanism. so just the background on that fiscal year 2018-19. only 12 of 58 california counties filed claims using this mechanism. as mr. murell mentioned, san francisco discontinued claiming against this in fiscal year of 2015-16. but we did find that alemeda county

i'm fred russo from the budget legislative analyst office. i'm going to speak today about our review of current efforts to increase medi-cal reimbursement for behavioral health services. i do have some slides. i will share here. and, are those showing up? >> yeah. we can see it. >> okay. great. so supervisor melgar asked our office to do a review of medi-cal administrative costs and reimbursement practices and the city's behavioral health services division of the department of public health and the background of the question was this information that supervisor melgar mentioned and the other counties had been increasing their reimbursement through this mechanism called mental health m.a.a. or medi-cal health and administrative activities. it's a charging mechanism, reimbursement mechanism. so just the background on that fiscal year 2018-19. only 12 of 58 california counties filed claims using this mechanism. as mr. murell mentioned, san francisco discontinued claiming against this in fiscal year of 2015-16. but we did find that alemeda county

i'm fred russo from the budget legislative analyst office.ng to speak today about our review of current efforts to increase medi-cal reimbursement for behavioral health services. i do have some slides. i will share here. and, are those showing up? >> yeah. we can see it. >> okay. great. so supervisor melgar asked our office to do a review of medi-cal administrative costs and reimbursement practices and the city's behavioral health services division of the department of public health and the background of the question was this information that supervisor melgar mentioned and the other counties had been increasing their reimbursement through this mechanism called mental health m.a.a. or medi-cal health and administrative activities. it's a charging mechanism, reimbursement mechanism. so just the background on that fiscal year 2018-19. only 12 of 58 california counties filed claims using this mechanism. as mr. murell mentioned, san francisco discontinued claiming against this in fiscal year of 2015-16. but we did find that alemeda county had beg