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| Corrections department worries about health care costs |
| By roanoke.com- Michael Martz |
| Published: 10/21/2014 |
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Virginia’s prison system faces a $45 million shortfall in inmate health care through next year, even as the corrections department bears the brunt of the latest round of cuts in the two-year state budget. The shortfall emerged this year after a private company that had provided health care to inmates at 17 prisons in hard-to-serve areas ended its contract with the state at the end of September, according to Department of Corrections Director Harold Clarke in a presentation Monday to the House Appropriations Committee. An emergency contract with another private provider took effect Oct. 1 but at a higher cost and in the face of a $10.2 million reduction in the Department of Corrections’ medical budget in the fiscal year that ended June 30 because of anticipated savings from the private contract, Clarke said. Read More. |
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