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Director anne hinton is present. Thank you, could we have approval of the august 5, 2015 agenda . So moved. Second. Been moved and second that we approve the agenda for august 5, 2015. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed . Ayes have it, so the motion is carried. Could we have approval of the august 5 Consent Agenda. Could i have a motion to approve . So moved. Second. Moved and seconded that we approve the Consent Agenda for august 5, 2015. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed . Ayes have it and so the motion is carried. I need a motion to approve the june 24, 2015 meeting minutes, any correction...

Opportunity. As you know, i am on the all aaa directors in the state of california are on the California Association of aging board as directors. That makes us members. So i was voted through an election process to represent california as one of two Board Members on the national board. So every region, there is 12 regions, has four. So we have one from hawaii, and one from arizona, and two from california, being the bigger state. For a number of years i was the alternate, and recently became the board took the board seat. So what had happened the staff for nfra was asked for the names of peopl...

In the district. And a onesentence question. Does the work they do in prison, does that count towards medicare . Social security, medicare. No, it does not. There is a statutory prohibition wow. For medicare paying for any Services Provided behind bars. Thst also a statutory provision that if youre on parole or probation, you cannot receive medicare benefit. On the medicaid side, theres something known as the inmate exception, which goes back again to the original finding of medicaid, which states if youre an inmate of a Public Institution as the exact statutory language, you cannot receive me...

To treat. The challenge has been the Regulatory Framework in a postAffordable Care act world that limits our treatment. I want to make it clear that this is a bipartisan issue. Governor perry, governor deal of georgia, theyve been going out and promoting treatment of criminogen criminogenic behavior rather than incarceration. What changes is states who have enrolled in the Affordable Care act is to scale this at a level a state governor cannot necessarily do. Thank you very much. Well turn next to debra rowe. Thank you, ed. All right. Good afternoon. During my i witnessed the disheartening mal...

They have several prisons within our state that take it so that the cost for that does not come out of our per diem there. So, again, heres our creativity. As you heard, i have a long history with managed Care Organizations and whether you like them or dont or whatever, its the world we live in and they are successful. So some of the principles that those managed Care Organizations have used, we have applied in the department of corrections. The first one being and im very proud of this is called the summer of Health Care Benefits and it is the same document or a similar document that you rece...