The brothers at the center of an investigation into the Okaloosa Jail’s healthcare policy have resurfaced again.
Former Okaloosa Jail Department Head Nolan Weeks and his brother, HealthCred Care President Chad LaBoy, announced in a press release that they plan to donate more than $140,000 to corrections departments and sheriff’s offices in Florida, Alabama, and Georgia.
HealthCred Care is a scheme that allows local governments to help sign up unsentenced inmates for healthcare through the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) as a way to reduce local government’s liability to pay for medical treatments directly.
The press release highlights the pair as co-founders of the business, even though the business was started while Weeks was still at the Okaloosa County Jail as a supervisor, and claimed he did not work for the business at the time.
We attempted to secure an interview with the brothers and were initially told by their Public Relations manager that they would be available. After a short time, we were informed that their schedules had filled and that they were no longer available at any time.
Should they become available, we’ll update the story.
Nolan Weeks was hired at the Okaloosa County Jail over far more qualified applicants in 2022 to serve as a major of jail operations.
An investigation by Okaloosa County’s contracted attorneys at Nabors, Giblin, and Nickerson found that Weeks violated Okaloosa County’s Human Resources policy concerning the use of county equipment and satisfactory performance of his duties immediately before he resigned from his position as department chief.
According to the HealthCred website, Weeks is “the executive vice president, co-founder, and head of implementation at HealthCred. A retired Florida jail administrator with 20 years of law enforcement and corrections experience, he helps agencies implement solutions that reduce costs and support continuity of care.”
The investigation by Okaloosa County into Weeks found that, after his brother’s business was explicitly barred from doing business at the jail due to a conflict of interest. But in October of 2024, identical sign-up software from another business, RedShift, was found on the tablets used to sign up inmates for healthcare coverage. April McDaniel, a major at the Okaloosa County Jail, argued that at the time the software is not just identical – they used the exact same tablets.
The report listed the reason for Week’s separation from the county as misconduct in the report.
HealthCred Care promotes its ability to save local law enforcement and governments money through the sign-up process.
Healthcred care receives compensation through a bounty to sign up individuals for health plans. According to the press release, “By connecting eligible individuals to coverage—often including low-income medial [sic] health care coverage. facilities can reduce uncompensated medical costs and improve continuity of care during reentry, benefiting public health and community outcomes.”
The company purports to have endorsement from several members of the law enforcement community, including:
All told, the company claims hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings to the local jails they operate in.
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