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Trade secrets: inmate health-care contracts kept confidential

By Jennifer Chaussee Hundreds of millions of dollars are involved in a new state contract for prison health care, but there's no telling now exactly much money California is spending under the agreement, which takes effect in just weeks. Even lawmakers are kept in the dark. The contract and its fiscal details are secret because of an exemption related to health care information within the state Public Records Act, said Liz Kanter, a spokesperson for the California Prison Health Care Services, the government body that awarded the contract to Health Net Federal Services, an outside HMO and subsidiary of Health Net. To read the complete article from Capitol Weekly, please click here.

Full post as published by The Trade Secrets Vault on December 19, 2010 (boomark / email).