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Consultant: State inmates subsidize jail; ambulance transfers are loss-making without new payment model
Summary
Consultant Cody Dieter told the Millard County Commission that housing state inmates currently subsidizes the jail and that interfacility ambulance transfers cost the county more per mile than the transfers bring in. Commissioners asked staff and Intermountain Health to review legal obligations and said they will seek follow-up.
A consultant's financial review presented Tuesday to the Millard County Commission found the county's jail is materially subsidized by contracts to house state inmates and that ambulance interfacility transfers are being subsidized by 9-1-1 calls. Cody Dieter, a consultant with EFG Consulting, told the commissioners his analysis modeled three jail scenarios and two ambulance scenarios and examined staffing, revenue and variable costs over a 10-year period. "The state inmates are subsidizing the jail operations," Dieter said. "Eliminating [state inmates] would require unsafe cuts to jail staffing." Dieter said state inmates comprised roughly 60% of the facility's population over a recent four-year window. Under a status-quo projection the…
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