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Centurion wins 1-year inmate care contracts worth $52M
By santafenewmexican.com- Justin Horwath
Published: 05/24/2016

The New Mexico Department of Corrections announced late Monday that it has awarded both the medical services and pharmaceutical contracts to Centurion LLC, to provide care for some 7,200 state prison inmates. The state will pay Centurion $41 million in one year to provide medical services to state prison inmates and up to another $11 million in a separate pharmaceutical agreement.

The department chose Centurion over the current health care provider, Corizon Correctional Healthcare, and Wexford Health Sources, which the state fired in 2007 over concerns about the quality of its medical care.

Gregg Marcantel, Corrections Department Cabinet secretary, said in a news release the agency carefully crafted the contracts to “ensure a good partnership and a good deal for taxpayers.”

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