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Tennessee Facilities Billed Medicaid for Alcohol, Gift Cards, Comptrollers Report

October 16, 2019October 15, 2019 Chris Butler

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Tennessee Comptrollers say staff members at two health care facilities in the state billed Medicaid for a lot more than legally allowed, and taxpayers lost money as a result.