{"id":366913,"date":"2015-06-23T02:04:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T07:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=366913"},"modified":"2015-06-24T02:10:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T07:10:38","slug":"texas-case-shows-challenges-in-recouping-cash-from-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=366913","title":{"rendered":"Texas Case Shows Challenges in Recouping Cash from Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/Tariq-Mahmood2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/Tariq-Mahmood2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Tariq Mahmood2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-366914\" \/><\/a>DALLAS (AP\/Staff) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The case of a troubled Texas hospital system that stretched into East Texas shows how a federal program that distributes funds to help computerize health-care records has been vulnerable to fraud. The Dallas Morning News reports that it also shows the challenges in recouping the money that wasn&#8217;t used for those purposes. The U.S. Health and Human Services Department gave nearly $18 million through its $24 billion stimulus program to Tariq Mahmood&#8217;s rural hospital chain. The newspaper reported in 2013 that the vast majority of the money wasn&#8217;t used to upgrade the hospitals&#8217; electronic records. Joe White, who managed the chain, was sentenced to 23 months in prison. Mahmood (pictured) was sentenced to 11 years for separate crimes of billing fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS (AP\/Staff) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The case of a troubled Texas hospital system that stretched into East Texas shows how a federal program that distributes funds to help computerize health-care records has been vulnerable to fraud. The Dallas Morning News reports that it also shows the challenges in recouping the money that wasn&#8217;t used for those purposes. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=366913\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas Case Shows Challenges in Recouping Cash from Fraud<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":366914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-16 01:56:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367099,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366913\/revisions\/367099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/366914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}