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WAKE COUNTY, S.C. — Late last year, North Carolina was looking at ways to privatize the delivery of health care for its 40,000 inmates to a single provider under a seven-year $1.5 billion pact. But that deal never materialized and early this year, the state shelved the idea of contracting out the medical and mental care of inmates.
But a Charlotte-based company, Southern Health Partners, may have found a way to get business out of another governmental agency — specifically in Anderson County, S.C.
The county which is located along the Georgia border, has decided to turn in the responsibility of its inmates to Southern Health for a yearly payment of $574,860. Reports suggest it will save the county $20,000 in annual savings.
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