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Morgan v. Gusman, LA, Complaint, Suicide, 2014 Case 2:14-cv-01719 Document 1 Filed 07/28/14 Page 1 of 40 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA DELLA MORGAN VERSUS MARLIN N. GUSMAN, ORLEANS PARISH SHERIFF; DR. SAMUEL GORE; DR. MICHAEL HIGGINS; VINCENT DILEO, as executor of Estate of Dr. MARCUS DILEO; …
Publication • April 1, 2014
Healthcare Copay Report, 2013 - Bureau of Prisons Federal Prisoner Health Care Copayment Act of 2000 Report to Congress Status Report: April2014 Legislative Summary: On October 12,2000, the President signed into law the Federal Prisoner Health Care Copayment Actof2000 (P.L. 106-294; codified at Title 18 U.S.C. § 4048). The Act …
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
Arizona TV Reporter Blames Prisoners for Citizens’ Lack of Healthcare by When Lynette Barrett was searching for someone to blame for her husband’s battle with liver disease and his long wait for a transplant, a TV reporter was quick to point his finger at America’s favorite scapegoat: prisoners. Morgan Loew, …
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
Ninth Circuit: Budgetary Constraints May Excuse Deliberate Indifference to Prisoner’s Serious Medical Needs; En Banc Review Granted by On January 7, 2013, a divided Ninth Circuit panel held that a prison employee, alleged to be deliberately indifferent to a prisoner’s serious medical needs, can avoid liability for damages by establishing …
Publication • January 1, 2014
Filed under: Medical Expenses
DHHS - Report on Improper Medicare Payments to Prisoners, 2014 Department of Health and Human Services OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL MEDICARE IMPROPERLY PAID MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR PRESCRIPTION DRUGS PROVIDED TO INCARCERATED BENEFICIARIES DURING 2006 THROUGH 2010 Inquiries about this report may be addressed to the Office of Public Affairs …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Oregon Considers Subsidizing Prison Medical Costs Through Medicaid by With health care expenses for prisoners consuming more than $208 million of the biennial budget for the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) – a 67% increase since 2005 – prison officials are desperate to contain costs. Correctional Health Partners (CHP), which …
Publication • October 24, 2013
Filed under: Medical, Medical Expenses
Correctional Healtg Care Report VT State Auditor 2013 Report of the Vermont State Auditor October 24, 2013 CORRECTIONAL HEALTH CARE Annual Cost Overruns, but Contract Oversight Has Improved Douglas R. Hoffer Vermont State Auditor Rpt. No. 13-06 Mission Statement The mission of the Auditor’s Office is to hold state government …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Oklahoma: Hospital Sues Sheriff over Unpaid Medical Bills, for Third Time by Christopher Zoukis For the third time in the past eight years, Oklahoma County Sheriff John Whetsel has been sued for damages by a local hospital, which accuses him of releasing dozens of jail prisoners to avoid having to …
Ex-Felons are About to Get Health Coverage by Michael Ollove Newly freed prisoners traditionally walk away from the penitentiary with a bus ticket and a few dollars in their pockets. Starting in January 2014, many of the 650,000 prisoners released from prison each year will be eligible for something else: …
Delaware Court Decides Financial Dispute Involving Prison Healthcare Company by Derek Gilna A complaint brought in the Court of Chancery of Delaware to appraise the value of a prison healthcare company inadvertently shed light on the big business of providing contracted correctional services. Certain shareholders of Just Care, Inc., a …
Article • March 15, 2013
Seventh Circuit Rules for State Officials in Prisoner Medical Co-pay Dispute by Derek Gilna The Seventh Circuit has upheld the district court dismissal of prisoner Peter Poole III’s complaint again the Big Muddy River Correctional Center in downstate Illinois over its refusal to waive what he felt was an unnecessary …
Publication • March 1, 2013
Healthcare Copay Report, 2012 - Bureau of Prisons Federal Prisoner Health Care Co payment Act of 2000 Report to Congress Status Report: March 2013 Legislative Summary: On October 12, 2000, the President signed into law the Federal Prisoner Health Care Copayment Act of2000 {P.L. 106-294~ codified at Title 18 U.S.C. …
Article • January 15, 2013 • from PLN January, 2013
States Seek Federal Medicaid Reimbursements to Offset Prison Medical Costs by States Seek Federal Medicaid Reimbursements to Offset Pris-on Medical Costs State prison systems nationwide are looking to federal Medicaid reimbursements to partly offset escalating healthcare expenses for prisoners. The Medicaid law expressly excludes coverage for people who are incarcerated, …
New North Carolina DOC Hospital Promises Better Healthcare for Prisoners by Joe Watson With crowded prisons and an increasing percentage of prisoners age 50 and older, the North Carolina Department of Corrections (NCDOC) opened a $153.7 million medical complex at the Central Prison in Raleigh in November 2011. The new …
The Other Death Sentence: More than 100,000 Americans are destined to spend their final years in prison. Can we afford it? by James Ridgeway The Other Death Sentence: More than 100,000 Americans are destined to spend their final years in prison. Can we afford it? by James Ridgeway William “Lefty” …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
UTMB Challenges Texas State Audit, while Legislature Imposes $100 Prisoner Health Care Co-Pay by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) has challenged the findings of a state audit of the prisoner health care services it provides. The challenged audit reported that UTMB …
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
Prisoner Medical Care Costs Oregon Taxpayers Over $100 Million Annually by As of July 1, 2011, the first day of Oregon’s most recent budget cycle, the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) had a population of just over 14,000 prisoners and a shiny new $1.36 billion budget for the 2011-2013 biennium. …
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
Texas Prisoner Health Care Underfunded by On average, Texas spends less on prisoner health care than other states – about half the amount that California spends. However, medical care for California prisoners was found to be unconstitutionally inadequate, leading a federal court to order reductions in the state’s prison population …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Medical Parole Law Costs California Taxpayers Millions of Dollars by Responding to concerns that prisoners who are granted compassionate release due to terminal medical conditions may “cheat” the system by outliving a doctor’s prognosis, the California legislature enacted a medical parole law in 2010 that allows prisoners to be re-incarcerated …
New Prison HIV Medication Rules Subject of Massachusetts Suit by Cost reduction is the “real reason” behind a new policy in Massachusetts prisons that prohibits prisoners from receiving their HIV medication through the Keep On Person (KOP) program, according to a federal civil rights lawsuit. Under the policy, HIV-positive prisoners …
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