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7 Mar 2012, 6:09 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Reporting on a House Corrections Committee hearing yesterday on juvenile justice, AP says ("Mental health issues common among youth prisoners," Mar. 7) that:More than half of the people in Texas' youth prisons have a moderate or high need for mental health care, and officials should improve their early intervention efforts to help those young people before they end up behind bars, the head of a new state agency told lawmakers… [read post]
4 Jan 2009, 10:24 am
In general, older inmates require more supervision and medical and mental-health care, as well as special diets, mobility aids and special housing. [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 7:46 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Reported Mike Ward at the Houston Chronicle/Express-News:State lawmakers may consider shuttering another prison and paroling some older, infirm inmates to nursing homes in a bid to shift more than $400 million in funding toward rising health care costs and much-needed repairs and upgrades to Texas’ aging corrections facilities. [read post]
15 Aug 2018, 3:30 am by Angela Harris
Because of the extent to which prison building and operation began to attract vast amounts of capital – from the construction industry to food and health care provision – in a way that recalled the emergence of the military industrial complex, we began to refer to a “prison industrial complex. [read post]
9 Jan 2019, 1:39 pm by Robert Liles
A patient recruiter was sentenced to 108 months in prison today for her role in a $3.6 million home health Medicare fraud scheme in this health care fraud case. [read post]
31 Oct 2011, 8:05 am
In September, Ben Bane was sentenced to twelve years and six months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud, and submitting false claims. [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 5:26 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In the wake of a recent audit alleging that the University of Texas Medical Branch overcharged for prison health services, I was interested to note that both the House and Senate budgets would university medical providers to get written permission from LBB to charge TDCJ more for services than would be allowable under Medicaid.Rider 58 in the proposed Senate budget (large pdf, p. 599) declares that TDCJ "shall not pay rates to health care providers for… [read post]
15 Apr 2009, 6:42 am
A federal judge has sentenced two former executives of collapsed health care financing company National Century Financial Enterprises ("NCFE"), to decades in prison for their roles in a $2.8 billion fraud scheme. [read post]
19 Jan 2018, 5:31 pm by Gregory J. Brod
Drobot, 73, was charged with crimes related to running a 15-year health care fraud scheme. [read post]
25 Jan 2011, 12:13 am by Ben Vernia
HHS also announced new anti-fraud regulations arising from authority given to the agency in 2010’s health care reform law. [read post]
31 Oct 2011, 7:05 am by Robert
TAMPA (October 21) Last week, Gregory Bane, the Vice President for Operations and I.T. manager of Bane Medical Services and Oxygen and Respiratory Therapy was sentenced to three years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud, and submitting false claims. [read post]
7 Jun 2010, 1:41 pm by James Esseks, LGBT Project
The Eighth Amendment decision adds to a small but growing body of law recognizing that transition-related health care is medically necessary and that policies banning these treatments are unconstitutional. [read post]
6 Sep 2023, 10:43 am by Barsumian Armiger
Miller, who suffered from severe mental illness, killed his grandfather in January 2017 after receiving allegedly negligent care from his mental health providers. [read post]
28 May 2014, 9:00 am
Pramrod Raval and Chiradeep Gupta, of conspiracy to commit health care fraud (see the press release on the verdict). [read post]
29 Nov 2012, 12:00 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The Legislature last session behaved as though it were in collective denial on this question, cutting the budget for correctional staff, in-prison programming and prisoner health care without taking action to reduce the number of prisoners supervised. [read post]