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City audit finds overbilling, missing board approvals and altered contracts at Nashville General Hospital
Summary
An internal investigation by Metro audit staff substantiated four of five allegations about contract management, billing and use of hospital resources at Nashville General Hospital; auditors recommended 12 corrective actions and said Metro and hospital officials are cooperating on follow-up and potential fund recovery.
Metro Nashville’s internal investigators reported findings this week after probing multiple allegations about operations at Nashville General Hospital, concluding four allegations were substantiated and one was not substantiated.
The audit team said it substantiated a $232,000 overbilling by a valet services contractor, multiple contracts that were executed without documented board approval totaling about $4.46 million, and a physician’s use of hospital clinic space and staff without billing the hospital for patients. Investigators also found instances in which contracts provided to media requesters did not match the copies on file at the hospital, suggesting documents were altered before release. One allegation about…
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