TB lawsuit will cost Ramsey County millions
Seems as if the whole prison is going to get some cash by way of a botched up TB diagnosis, latent TB get between $44,300 and $54,300 and active TB are to get $250,000 plus another $250,000 if there are complications.Plus there is another $14M lawsuit pending.
Inmates and former inmates who test negative for TB will receive no benefits.Yeah well, that will never happen if you keep using the TST
Correction, it was the failure to detect the active TB that became the trigger. Be that as it may, the skin test (or blood test) is still the recommended test for TB.
Footnote 1; it appears that payment for damages is to be made by the taxpayer as the county has a "self-insurance fund."
Footnote 2; forrest has done some digging and found records indicating that Ramsey County are to take the work away from their Public Health Department and engage the services of Multicare Associates.
