Policy Briefs 2010
Policy Brief No. 1 - President’s FY2011 Budget.pdf
President’s request will fall shy of maintaining current services and funding CSC shortfalls by $99 million. We have some work to do with Congress to get this bump and preserve and protect this request.
Here are the details of changes:
The President’s request includes $175.6 million for current services and an additional $178.5 million for program increases.
The current services increases are as follows:
Federal, Tribal, and Urban program pay cost increases $24.4 million.
$52.5 million to fund population growth calculated at a 1.5% growth factor
$60 million to cover inflationary growth calculated at 1.5% for non-medical inflation and 3.3% for medical inflation
$38.8 million (22% of the program increase) will fund staffing and operating costs of five new facilities that will come on-line in FY 2011
The budget includes $178.5 million to fund program increases as follows:
$4 million increase to fund Health Information Technology security for the Resource and Patient Management System
$2.5 million to fund Chronic Disease issues
$4 million for a new competitive grant program to expand access to alcohol and substance abuse services as part of a national drug control strategy
The Contract Health Service program will be increased by $46 million, within this amount the Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund (CHEF) will be increased from $8 million to $53 million.
The Urban Indian Health Programs will receive an additional $1 to assist to improve third party collections.
$40 million increase for the Contract Support Cost budget
$37 million increase to fund construction of new health facilities at Barrow, AK; San Carlos, AZ; and Kayenta, AZ.
If you have questions or need additional details, feel free to call Jim Roberts at (503) 228-4185 or by email.
