Butler County Prison had to pay $800,000 in taxpayer funds in June or July for one county inmate to receive medication, members of the prison board said at a Tuesday, Nov. 18, meeting.

The significant cost was at the forefront of the conversation as the board discussed extending the prison’s health care contract with PrimeCare Medical and signing a new one.

“If you would subtract one individual off of our catastrophic report, you would be pretty close, if not a little bit over, the threshold of what the cap is set within the contract,” said Brent Bavington, president of PrimeCare Medical.

The catastrophic cap sets the maximum amount insurance will cover before the prison covers the rest. The prison board can also be reimbursed if it does not reach the cap.

“Think of the catastrophic ca

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