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UTMB wants out of prison healthcare contract thanks to $61 million out-of-pocket costs

Might universities cease providing health care in the Texas prison system, reverting to TDCJ-employed doctors at the agency's 85 in-prison health clinics? Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman reports:Making good on an earlier threat, officials at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston are seeking to stop providing medical care to the state's 154,000 convicts at in-prison clinics it now runs.Prison officials said Thursday the move could trigger a complete restructuring of how Texas provides health care to its prison convicts at a time when mushrooming costs are expected to leave the Galveston school and Texas Tech University tens of millions of dollars in the red."This is a fundamental shift they are proposing," said Brad Livingston, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on December 10, 2010 (boomark / email).