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Draft budgets reduce prison healthcare reimbursements to match Medicaid rates

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 hospital services provided to offenders in its custody that exceed the rates that would be paid for same services according to the Medicaid reimbursement methodology adopted by the Health and Human Services Commission in Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 355."Presently, said the state auditor, "the UTMB-CMC Division's reimbursement amount for physician billing services is, on average, 135 percent of the Medicare reimbursement amount...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 16, 2011 (boomark / email).