By Ben Hall
News Channel 5
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A prominent state senator says taxpayers should not have to pay late medical bills submitted by a Tennessee hospital involving the care of state inmates.
The Regional Medical Center in Memphis, a county-owned hospital, has submitted bills up to six years late, for as much as a million dollars, to the Tennessee Department of Correction.
The chair of the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Randy McNally, R-Oak Ridge, said the bills are outrageous.
Full story: State Stuck With Big, Late Medical Bills For Inmates