The newspaper obtained records that Michael Silhol will receive a year's salary without being employed. Officials at the taxpayer-funded Dallas County hospital would not comment.
Silhol will resign effect Sept. 30. He announced his resignation last month, amid Parkland's legal woes. Reports allege that the hospital owed as much as $50 million for overcharging Medicare and repaid only $1.4 million. The hospital now faces an investigation from the U.S. Dept of Justice.
The newspaper reported earlier this year that the hospital also faces federal investigations of other billing fraud allegations, massive narcotics theft from its pharmacies and the death of a man who languished in the emergency room for more than 17 hours.
Through the Public Information Act, the Dallas Morning News obtained records showing that Parkland had withheld information from its outside auditors, Deloitte & Touche, about how it calculated its liability under federal fraud statutes.
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