Bureau Of Prisons: Better Planning & Evaluation Needed To Understand & Control Rising Inmate Health Care Costs

On June 28, 2017, the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) released this report on the need for better planning and evaluation for understanding and controlling rising inmate health care costs. In the report, GAO addresses the Bureau of Prisons' (BOP) costs to provide health care services and factors that affect costs, the extent to which BOP has data to help control health care costs, and the extent to which BOP has planned and implemented cost control efforts. The report also includes five recommendations from GAO to the BOP, including that BOP conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis to identify the . . .