National Nurses United Wednesday called on Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery III to reject HCA Healthcare’s acquisition of NorthCrest Health in Springfield, Tenn., citing the potential adverse impact on patient care services and care costs for area residents.
$4M deal struck over fraud claims against pain firm, owners
JONATHAN MATTISE, Associated Press
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) State and federal authorities announced Wednesday that they have reached a $4.1 million settlement in a civil case that made claims of Medicaid and Medicare fraud against a now-shuttered pain clinic company and several of its owners, including a former state senator.
The deal settles claims by the state and federal governments against formerly Brentwood-based Comprehensive Pain Specialists, four of its owners former Republican Sen. Steve Dickerson, Peter Kroll, Gilberto Carrero and Richard Muench and former company executive Russell Smith. The cases against Dickerson and Carrero were dismissed in June 2020.
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However, Congress, she wrote, âhas given States considerable flexibility to use that money to address the diverse needs of their communities. At the same time, Congress placed limitations to ensure that the money is used to achieve those purposes â including provisions stating that this funding may not be used to offset a reduction in net tax revenue resulting from certain changes in state law.â
Filed in U.S. District Court in Frankfort, Kentucky, the
lawsuit seeks a temporary and permanent order keeping the federal government from preventing their states from using the funding to offset revenue lost to tax cuts as well as an order keeping the U.S. Treasury from seeking to recoup any American Rescue Plan funding used for that purpose.
AGs from Kentucky, Tennessee sue over stimulus tax rule
The Republican attorneys general of Kentucky and Tennessee have added their voices to those in several other states who are objecting to a provision in the $1.9 trillion pandemic aid plan that bars states from using relief money to offset tax cuts. The suit echoes similar action filed last week in federal court in Alabama by the attorneys general from 13 states that took aim at the provision prohibiting states from using $195 billion of federal…
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