Alarcon Announces Investigation of Tenet

The California Nurses Association (CNA) late Wednesday welcomed the call by State Senator Richard Alarcon (D-Los Angeles) for a formal state audit of Tenet Healthcare Corp.'s billing practices and how they affect the workers' compensation system in California. Alarcon announced his plan at the conclusion of a hearing Wednesday by the Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations, which he chairs. The Senate hearing was prompted by charges by CNA and the Institute for Health and Socio-Economic Policy (IHSP), which works with CNA, that Tenet's median gross charges to employers on worker...