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Maceri said it often takes three months or longer for providers to get reimbursed for their costs, which often are millions per month. At supervisors’ request, LAHSA officials presented data showing $48 million in past due reimbursements to providers as of Friday. “There is no flexibility, it's old, it's antiquated,” she added. “It is obscene to think that government is going to expect nonprofit organizations to carry us.”Supervisors ordered county staff to report back within three weeks with options for overhauling the payment system, and plan to discuss the options at their June 18 public meeting.
Hanging in the background is an effort to ask voters to double the county’s homelessness sales tax, known as Measure H, and extend it.
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