Report 2006-501 Recommendation 13 Responses

Report 2006-501: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: It Needs to Improve Its Processes for Contracting and Paying Medical Service Providers as Well as for Complying With the Political Reform Act and Verifying the Credentials of Contract Medical Service Providers (Release Date: April 2007)

Recommendation #13 To: Corrections and Rehabilitation, Department of

To protect the best interests of the State, all contracts that Corrections enters into with medical registries should contain express provisions related to the required notice period for cancellation.

1-Year Agency Response

The Office of the Receiver agrees with this recommendation and stated that it has developed and incorporated standardized contract cancellation language into its renewal or new exempt and bid medical contracts. (See 2009-406 p. 41)

California State Auditor's Assessment of 1-Year Status: Fully Implemented

All Recommendations in 2006-501

Agency responses received after June 2013 are posted verbatim.