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| Audit: Prison health care costs lives, money |
| By Mercury News |
| Published: 08/03/2006 |
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SACRAMENTO, CA - An audit released Wednesday found widespread mismanagement and overspending in the state prison health care system, costing taxpayers millions of dollars. State procedures for contracting health services are so poor as to practically invite abuse, said Controller Steve Westly, who was joined at a news conference by Robert Sillen, the court-appointed receiver of the prison medical care system. Westly highlighted some examples: One urologist charged the state $2,036 an hour. An orthopedic surgeon, in a single day's invoice, billed for 30 hours' worth of work. The surgeon billed the state nearly $1.5 million in one year. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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