Telescope Health is defending its telehealth partnership with the city against allegations of wrongdoing by City Council member Rory Diamond and the Duval DOGE committee.
The DOGE effort, led by council member Ron Salem, will meet again Tuesdayafter it decided Nov. 12 to form a subcommittee chaired by Diamond to investigate what he alleges is “potential serious misuse of taxpayer funds, wrongdoing, and potential illegal conduct” linked to the contracts negotiated by Mayor Donna Deegan’s administration.
During the meeting, Diamond also floated the claim — without releasing evidence — that parties involved in the Healthlink Jax program could be “directing traffic to ERs that we ought not to be,” which he says could be Medicare/Medicaid fraud…