{"id":704428,"date":"2018-04-03T14:51:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T19:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=704428"},"modified":"2018-04-04T15:14:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T20:14:28","slug":"emergency-agency-settles-federal-kickback-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=704428","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Agency Settles Federal Kickback Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/02\/ambulance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/02\/ambulance-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-587049\" \/><\/a>TULSA, Okla. (AP) &#8211; An emergency medical care provider in Oklahoma, with ties to Tyler&#8217;s former East Texas Medical Center, has authorized a payment of $300,000 to settle a federal kickback lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed in January 2017, alleged that Emergency Medical Services received $20 million in kickbacks from a former Texas contractor. The Tulsa World reports that the EMSA Board of Trustees unanimously approved the settlement during a special meeting Monday.  Federal officials said in court filings last week that a settlement had been reached in principle with EMSA and its former president and CEO, Stephen Williamson. A spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Joseph Brown, whose Eastern District of Texas office brought the lawsuit, declined to comment to the newspaper on the settlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TULSA, Okla. (AP) &#8211; An emergency medical care provider in Oklahoma, with ties to Tyler&#8217;s former East Texas Medical Center, has authorized a payment of $300,000 to settle a federal kickback lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed in January 2017, alleged that Emergency Medical Services received $20 million in kickbacks from a former Texas contractor. The Tulsa &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=704428\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Emergency Agency Settles Federal Kickback Lawsuit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":587049,"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-704428","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 04:49:51","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\/704428","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=704428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704429,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704428\/revisions\/704429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/587049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=704428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=704428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=704428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}