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Trustees press on spike in jail medical contracting and potential staffing risks
Summary
A sharp increase in projected professional medical services and questions about contractor audits led trustees to press staff for detailed billing and staffing comparisons; staff said preexisting-condition claims will not be excluded and that the trust must pay those charges.
Committee members zeroed in on professional medical services after staff projected monthly medical contracting costs in the January–June column that are far higher than the July–December actuals. Speaker 2 asked why the projection had been set at about $106,166 per month when several prior months were many times lower; trustees requested an itemized explanation of that change.
Speaker 4 said that prior expectations of recovering…
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