[8] In November 2024, Wellpath filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after being unable to meet debt commitments, as well as high rising and labor costs.
[11] As of 2019[update] the company is made up of three divisions including local detentions, federal and state prisons, and inpatient and residential treatment facilities.
[12] Healthcare services provided include: pharmacy management, electronic medical records, claims adjudication, as well as mental and behavioral health programming.
[12] In addition to the operation within inpatient and residential treatment facilities throughout the United States, Wellpath offers services within forensic state hospitals and provides sex offender treatment and competency restoration programs in Texas, Washington, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Florida, California, and Colorado.
After complete assessment, inmates are treated via an approach that focuses on addressing trauma and psychiatric care in order to restore mental health status as quickly as possible.
[17] On May 16, 2017, Texas Democratic state Senator Carlos Uresti was indicted by a federal grand jury in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas for conspiracy to commit bribery and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
PNA and its successor corporations continued to pay Uresti $10,000 monthly, starting in September 2006, for the next ten years.
[20] The quality of and access to health care in immigration detention centers have recently been a focus of attention in the media.
According to an investigation by nonpartisan independent group named Project on Government Oversight, Wellpath and the companies that merged to create it have a litigation history of at least 1,395 lawsuits.