{"id":697000,"date":"2018-03-06T16:20:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T22:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=697000"},"modified":"2018-03-07T16:20:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T22:20:02","slug":"settlement-reached-with-east-texas-contractor-in-kickback-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=697000","title":{"rendered":"Settlement Reached with East Texas Contractor in Kickback Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/03\/ETMC-ambulance.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/03\/ETMC-ambulance-200x189.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"189\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-697007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/03\/ETMC-ambulance-200x189.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/03\/ETMC-ambulance.jpeg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>TULSA, Okla. &#8211; Federal prosecutors have reached a settlement in a lawsuit against an ambulance service with ties to ETMC. The ambulance service was accused of violating anti-kickback statutes with an Oklahoma emergency medical services company. The lawsuit, filed last year, alleges that Paramedics Plus and Emergency Medical Services Authority entered into a $20 million kickback scheme. The Tulsa World reports that the settlement also affects the East Texas Medical Center Regional Healthcare System, an affiliate of Paramedics Plus. Prosecutors said in a February court filing that the parties are &#8220;finalizing documents&#8221; for the agreement. A memorandum of understanding detailing terms of the agreement has yet to be filed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TULSA, Okla. &#8211; Federal prosecutors have reached a settlement in a lawsuit against an ambulance service with ties to ETMC. The ambulance service was accused of violating anti-kickback statutes with an Oklahoma emergency medical services company. The lawsuit, filed last year, alleges that Paramedics Plus and Emergency Medical Services Authority entered into a $20 million &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=697000\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Settlement Reached with East Texas Contractor in Kickback Lawsuit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":697007,"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-697000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 15:14:08","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\/697000","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=697000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697008,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697000\/revisions\/697008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/697007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=697000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=697000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}