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| Prison prescriptions drop |
| By marionstar.com - Russ Zimmer |
| Published: 10/17/2012 |
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Ohio bought nearly 300,000 fewer prescriptions for inmates in 2011 versus two years earlier because of fewer prisoners and a healthcare system revamp brought about by a 2003 lawsuit. The Correctional Institution Inspection Committee, a nonpartisan watchdog of the state's prisons for the Ohio General Assembly, released a report last week showing the number of total prescriptions issued or refilled throughout the penal system dropped more than 16 percent from 2009 to 2011. The report claimed that medication expense for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction in fiscal year 2011 (July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011) was $32.5 million, or about $500,000 more than the previous year. Stuart Hudson, chief of correctional health care for the department, disputes that, saying the cost for pharmaceuticals has dropped each of the past three fiscal years for a total savings of $7.2 million. Read More. |
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