Missouri Healthcare Provider Sued in Arkansas

A man from Bella Vista, Arkansas is suing a Missouri health care provider at the center of a federal corruption investigation, asking the company be ordered to repay any money it may have illegally received from Arkansas taxpayers.

Attorneys for Jim Parsons filed the lawsuit Tuesday in Benton County Circuit Court against Preferred Family Healthcare, along with its subsidiaries Decision Point, Dayspring Behavioral Health Services and Wilbur D. Mills Treatment Center.

Officials from Preferred Family Healthcare did not respond to a request for comment.

Parsons says the company received nearly $53 million in state tax funds from 2011 to 2016 and any amount illegally obtained could be determined at trial.

Four former company executives have pleaded guilty to conspiracy connected to bribery of at least three former Arkansas lawmakers.

Preferred Family was suspended from receiving Medicaid payments earlier this year and its Arkansas clinics have been sold.