The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XLVII
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CORRECTIONS

Chapter 951
COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL PRISONERS

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F.S. 951.032

951.032 Financial responsibility for medical expenses.—

(1) A county detention facility or municipal detention facility incurring expenses for providing medical care, treatment, hospitalization, or transportation may seek reimbursement for the expenses incurred in the following order:

(a) From the prisoner or person receiving medical care, treatment, hospitalization, or transportation by deducting the cost from the prisoner’s cash account on deposit with the detention facility. If the prisoner’s cash account does not contain sufficient funds to cover medical care, treatment, hospitalization, or transportation, then the detention facility may place a lien against the prisoner’s cash account or other personal property, to provide payment in the event sufficient funds become available at a later time. Any existing lien may be carried over to future incarceration of the same prisoner as long as the future incarceration takes place within the county originating the lien and the future incarceration takes place within 3 years of the date the lien was placed against the prisoner’s account or other personal property.

(b) From an insurance company, health care corporation, or other source if the prisoner or person is covered by an insurance policy or subscribes to a health care corporation or other source for those expenses.

(2) A prisoner who receives medical care, treatment, hospitalization, or transportation shall cooperate with the county detention facility or municipal detention facility in seeking reimbursement under paragraphs (1)(a) and (b) for expenses incurred by the facility for the prisoner. A prisoner who willfully refuses to cooperate with the reimbursement efforts of the detention facility may have a lien placed against the prisoner’s cash account or other personal property and may not receive gain-time as provided by s. 951.21.

History.—s. 2, ch. 83-189; s. 45, ch. 95-283.

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Amendments to 951.032

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 951.032

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 951.032.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

J. CHERRY, v. STATE, 15 So. 3d 774 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2009)

. . . for the medical expenses at issue under either section 901.35, Florida Statutes (2005), or section 951.032 . . .

WILLIAMS Sr. v. ERGLE,, 698 So. 2d 1294 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1997)

. . . Section 951.032, Florida Statutes (1995), allows county and municipal detention facilities to recoup . . . Thus, it appears that section 951.032’s reference to prisoners includes both pre-trial detainees and . . . As with section 951.032, the term “prisoner” is not defined in this statute but the same reasoning suggests . . .

STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, v. MYERS, STATE v. MYERS, BROWARD COUNTY, v. MYERS,, 696 So. 2d 863 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1997)

. . . After an analysis of section 901.35, Florida Statutes, we next turn to section 951.032, Florida Statutes . . . , which we find to be instructive: 951.032 FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR MEDICAL EXPENSES (1) A county . . . We find section 901.35, Florida Statutes to be in harmony with section 951.032 Florida Statutes and in . . .

MORRAN, v. STATE, 662 So. 2d 1339 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1995)

. . . Although a county may seek reimbursement for medical costs under section 901.35 or section 951.032, these . . .

In KEPPRO, 573 So. 2d 140 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1991)

. . . Under Section 951.032, Florida Statutes (1987), a county or municipal detention facility may seek reimbursement . . .

E. CARSWELL, v. BAY COUNTY, G., 854 F.2d 454 (11th Cir. 1988)

. . . . § 951.032 for the recovery of medical expenses incurred during Carswell’s hospitalization. . . .

METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, a v. P. L. DODGE FOUNDATIONS, INC. d b a, 509 So. 2d 1170 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1987)

. . . There is no conflict between Section 901.35 and Section 951.032, Florida Statutes (1983), and Section . . . 951.032 lends no support to the holding in Fort Myers. . . . Section 951.032 provides: "(1) A county detention facility or municipal detention facility incurring . . . Section 951.032 contemplates that the governmental body has paid the provider, for example, under an . . .

ANCATA, v. PRISON HEALTH SERVICES, INC. a R., 769 F.2d 700 (11th Cir. 1985)

. . . . § 951.032 states in pertinent part: (1) A county detention facility or municipal detention facility . . .