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Audit: UTMB overcharged state while claiming massive deficit

The State Auditor's Office will be releasing an analysis today, reports the Austin Statesman ("UTMB prisoner health costs, raises scrutinized," Feb. 3), critical of UTMB's provision of healthcare at state prison facilities, accusing the agency of overcharging and giving large, unwarranted raises to dozens of employees. Reports Mike Ward:Texas taxpayers are spending more on treating convicted criminals at a Galveston hospital than they are on law-abiding citizens in other parts of the state, a critical audit of spiraling prison health care costs reveals.Expected to be made public sometime today , the report by the State Auditor's Office also alleges that the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston charged the state's prison health care program for more than $16...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 03, 2011 (boomark / email).