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| Pay for Prison Health Care Providers Increases During Federal Oversight |
| By californiahealthline.org |
| Published: 10/24/2012 |
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Compensation for health care providers working in California prisons has increased significantly since a federal receiver was appointed to reform the state's prison health system, the AP/Vacaville Reporter reports (Thompson, AP/Vacaville Reporter, 10/23). Background In 2006, U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson appointed J. Clark Kelso to oversee prison health care in the state after determining that an average of one inmate per week died as a result of malpractice or neglect (California Healthline, 9/6). The federal receivership has reduced costs for health care services performed outside of prisons by 50% by increasing the number of inmates with illnesses who are treated by prison doctors. Under the receivership, Kelso has the power to hire health care providers and set their pay levels. According to an AP analysis of state payroll data, 44 of the 100 highest-paid state workers outside of the University of California system worked in prisons. Those workers had an average income of nearly $379,000 annually. Read More. |
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