Navajo Area Indian Health Service, P.O. Box 9020, Window Rock, AZ 86515

Q -- HOSPITAL SERVICE SOL RFP M97-0015/MD DUE 063098 POC Maxine Dineyazhe, Contract Specialist, (520) 871-1386 or Jack Tarro, Senior Contracting Officer, (520) 871-5800. The Indian Health Service is soliciting proposals from interested providers to provide inpatient and outpatient hospital service to eligible Native American Indians and Alaskan Natives who are Indian Health Service (IHS) Contract Health Service (CHS) beneficiaries. Multiple awards will be made to those providers who will accept, as payment in full, reimbursement at rates no higher than the prevailing medicare allowable rates (including deductibles and co-payments). Proposals under this solicitation will be considered through June 30, 1998. Anticipated issue date is July 8, 1997. Multiple awards will be made for a twelve-month period with four (4) one year option periods. (0175)

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