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Medical Service Contracts and Claims, California Department of Corrections
From the Introduction section of the Auditor's report:
For care not available in its own facilities, Corrections contracts with medical service providers in the community. Corrections' costs incurred for contracted inmate medical and laboratory services have continued to increase in each of the last four fiscal years by more than 15 percent. In fiscal year 2001-02, costs increased by 29 percent and fiscal year 2002-03 witnessed another 20 percent increase. Figure 1 on the following page shows the variety of medical service providers that Corrections contracts with to deliver health care services to inmates, including community hospitals throughout the State that provide inpatient and outpatient medical services and specialty care physicians such as oncologists and radiologists. To provide temporary medical services when prison medical staff are unavailable or on long-term sick leave, Corrections uses medical registry contracts.
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