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Consolidated Agreement FY 18 Page 13 of 33 d. Program Planning and Implementation e. Quality and Performance Improvement f. General Administrative Consultation, including consultation and technical assistance in budgeting, fiscal, administrative and management support topic areas. 4. The State shall provide coordination and support for the education and training for the public health workforce. 5. The State shall provide technical assistance and consultant services, as required, for specific health program areas, including providing guidance and consultation about specific patient clinical issues, when requested. 6. The State shall provide course coordination, consultation, and technical assistance on nursing practice and standards, policies and procedures that cross programs. 7. The State shall provide support and consultation to the public health workforce in local health departments, including regional public health consultants who offer technical assistance and training on professional development; program planning, program evaluation and quality assurance; data collection; and community health assessment. 8. The State shall act as the principal liaison between the public health system and the State's Medicaid agency on issues related to Medicaid reimbursed services provided by the State and the Department and shall cooperate with the State Medicaid agency to provide technical assistance, guidance, and consultation to local health programs to ensure compliance with Medicaid policies and procedures. 9. The State shall work with the North Carolina DHHS Information Technology Division to provide automated systems and facilities via the Health Information System (HIS). HIS is currently used to create and submit Medicaid claims, perform accounts receivables, and to collect other DPH program -related data from client, service, encounter and other data on behalf of the local health departments and other public health programs. The State shall provide business and technical support for the automated systems to the users of this system. 10. The State shall provide support and consultation to ensure that the Health Information System (HIS) can generate standard transactions for public health Medicaid claims and for public health claims to all insurers submitted on behalf of the Department per HIPAA [the Administrative Simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-91) subparts I through N, which define the standards for specific transactions]. 11. The State shall responsibly use data reviewed and received in its role as a public health authority and health oversight agency while respecting the confidentiality and integrity of the data and securing and protecting the privacy of individual client health information (see the Business Associate Addendum to this Consolidated Agreement). 12. The State shall provide to the Department the Budgetary Estimates of Funding Allocations no later than February 14 of each year to use in preparation of their local budget proposals per current General Statute. An exception is the Food & Lodging distributions required by G.S. 130A -248(d). The State shall provide the Food & Lodging funding allocation on the Distribution Spreadsheet which will accompany the Activity 874 Food & Lodging Agreement Addendum. 13. The Food & Lodging Local Health Department Request for Payment Form (DPH EH 2948) will accompany the Agreement Addendum for Activity 874 Food & Lodging and will be provided to the