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State Awards New Contract To Service Uninsured Mentally Ill
Arizona Capitol Reports Staff//February 13, 2004//[read_meter]
State Awards New Contract To Service Uninsured Mentally Ill
Arizona Capitol Reports Staff//February 13, 2004//[read_meter]
Arizona has awarded a Virginia-based company a $3.1 billion contract to continue providing services to the Phoenix metropolitan area’s poor and uninsured mentally ill.
ValueOptions has held the contract since 1998 and now has a new three-year deal.
Under the new contract, ValueOptions will provide 5 per cent of its annual after-tax net income as part of a “community reinvestment’’ for items such as training and scholarships.
For the most recent fiscal year, the company posted $16.5 million in after-tax net income.
Cathy Eden, director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, said the goal is for the mental-health system to have more families involved in treatment and people getting services more quickly. —
