Prisons consider switch to local hospitals for convict care - Austin American-Statesman

State prison officials are poised for the first time in 18 years to contract directly with someone other than a state university to provide medical care for Texas convicts.

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Since 1993, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Texas Tech University have provided health care for the state's 156,000 inmates as part of a managed-care network that began unraveling in the past year because of spiraling costs.

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