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| Ohio prisons cutting medical costs |
| By necn.com |
| Published: 05/09/2013 |
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say Ohio prisons cut more than $26 million from inmate medical expenses last year. That's according to a new report from the Correctional Institution Inspection Committee released Wednesday. It shows a 15.2-percent reduction in prison medical expenses last year. The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1735q2g) reports that a $2 inmate co-pay, mail-order drugs, requiring prisoners to buy their own aspirin, and other measures allowed the savings. The state paid $188.3 million for prison medical expenses last year, compared with 211.5 million in 2011, and $222.8 million in 2010. The report also showed that the number of inmate patient visits to nurses and doctors dropped by 25 percent last year from 2009. Read More. |
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