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Cuyahoga County paid MetroHealth $1.13 million in employee parking stipends, signing bonuses and other incentive payments between July 2022 and July 2026, and the county employees responsible for overseeing the jail medical contract say they had no idea those charges were being reimbursed. Roughly $325,670 of that total landed in 2025 alone, according to findings from the county’s own watchdog office.
The figures come from an investigation detailed by cleveland.com, which reported that county employees overseeing the jail and MetroHealth contract told investigators they did not know the county was reimbursing the health system for parking. That’s notable because the county had specifically told MetroHealth in 2024 that it was unwilling to pay parking stipends and certain other costs, per the same report…