The prime contractor delivering health care services in San Diego County jails failed to pay outside hospitals and other specialty providers, limiting the Sheriff’s Department's ability to send sick and needy people in custody into treatment, newly disclosed records show.
5 million in contempt fines in the 12-year-old case. The Alabama correctional health contractor also serves the jail system in Pima County, Ariz. Officials there docked NaphCare more than $3 million for failing to meet a slew of terms and conditions in its contract with the region surrounding the city of Tucson, according to local news reports. San Francisco lawyer Gay Grunfeld is one of the lead attorneys driving the class-action lawsuit against San Diego County.
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