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Tenn. stuck with big, late medical bills for inmates

Prominent state senator says taxpayers should not have to pay late medical bills for inmates

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.

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