The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) terminated a $1 billion health care contract with YesCare over the weekend.
The contract between ADOC and YesCare totals $1.064 billion from April 2023 to September 2027 for comprehensive healthcare to all inmates in the physical custody and control of the ADOC.
ADOC deputy commissioner Jeffery Williams said during a Joint Prison Oversight Committee meeting on Wednesday that ADOC terminated the contract with YesCare recently and entered into an emergency contract with Birmingham-based NaphCare.
According to WBRC, YesCare paid hundreds of employees late in April. The contract was criticized by multiple legislators in 2023 due to the company's financial and legal troubles in multiple other states.
"It did not take a genius to know that a company that was already under bankruptcy, insolvent, had issues with providing care all over the country, was going to end up putting us in this situation where we're probably going to have to pay much more than we've already paid YesCare for healthcare in the prison system. It's going to be a mess," State Rep. Chris England (D-Tuscaloosa).
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