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Indiana sees big cost jump with new prison medical contract


Indiana sees big cost jump with new prison medical contract
May 15, 2021
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Indiana could pay about 50% more a year for prison medical services with a new contractor picked by state officials.
The four-year contract with Centurion Health will pay an average of about $160 million a year to the company that submitted the most expensive of four vendor proposals, The (Fort Wayne) Journal Gazette reported. That compares to an annual $106 million cost the previous four years.
General medical services are included in the contract as well as behavioral health, addiction recovery and maternal child health for the nearly 24,000 inmates in the state prison system. ....

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State picks prison health service | Local | The Journal Gazette


State picks prison health service
$643 million contract goes to company facing lawsuits
NIKI KELLY | The Journal Gazette
INDIANAPOLIS – A new $643 million state contract for prison medical services is the most expensive proposal from four vendors vying to provide the services.
The four-year contract was awarded to Centurion Health of Indiana LLC, at a cost of about $160 million a year. Centurion – and its parent company Centene Corp. – is also embroiled in several controversies and lawsuits, including an allegation of a rigged contract in Tennessee and substandard care in Mississippi.
The departing vendor, Wexford of Indiana LLC, bid about $30 million less a year but Department of Correction Chief Communications Officer Annie Goeller said price is only one factor considered. ....

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