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Native Health
This website is published to promote tribal use of DSHS health care payments. Last year federally recognized tribes and Indian health care organizations participated in 22 programs which distributed $35 million dollars to assist the recovery of more than 40,000 individuals. Reimbursements paid for:
- $15,940,954 Medical and Dental Encounters
- $8,721,496 Mental Health Encounters
- $6,864,541 Chemical Dependency Treatment Encounters
- $2,324,991 Pharmacy Encounters
- $133,825 Primary Care Case Management Encounters
- $1,022,622 Other Fee for Service Encounters
The Native Health Program manager serves as a government-to-government liaison, contacts network, tribal advocate, sounding board, cultural advisor, teacher, researcher, diplomat, and intermediary between HRSA and Tribes. Helping tribal health providers submit accurate and timely billings is a priority, as is seeing to it that tribal bills are paid promptly. The program exists to not only assist Indian health professionals and DSHS administrators understand changing State and Tribal realities, day by day, but also to preserve lasting long-term agreements.
Our website is dedicated to the visionary State and Tribal leaders who laid the foundation for good will, and strove to make the individual clients’ journey to recovery a more positive experience. Public servants and Tribal employees who care for the well being of others are keepers of a sacred trust and the work they do, at every level, deserves to be honored.
Brett Lawton,
Program Manager
Phone:
(360) 725-1649
Robin F. Torner, Assistant Program
Manager
Phone: (360)
725-1227
PO Box 45500
Olympia, WA 98504-5500
Fax: (360) 586-7498
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