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Supervisors direct development of procedure to use opioid‑settlement funds for jail MOUD medications
Summary
After receiving an unpaid bill for medication prescribed to an incarcerated person, Jackson County supervisors asked jail and auditor staff to draft a HIPAA‑compliant, auditable procedure for paying medication costs from opioid‑settlement funds and to return with the protocol for approval.
Jackson County supervisors asked jail and auditor staff on Tuesday to draft a written procedure for paying medications for incarcerated people with opioid use disorder from opioid‑settlement funds, following a presentation by the jail administrator about an unpaid bill.
"We received a bill from Osterhaus for one of our inmates that is on MOUD medication. That medication is $150.82," Andrew Long, the county jail administrator, told the board. Long said the county had asked whether the Administrative Service Organization (ASO) would cover the bill and had not yet received an answer.
Long described contract language he referenced during the meeting — "exhibit e, schedule a section f" — which…
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