KOSCIUSKO —
Former Attala County and City of Kosciusko Public Defender Jim Davis Hull can no longer practice law.
The Mississippi State Supreme Court made the ruling at the request of The Mississippi Bar to revoke his privileges to practice as an attorney on August 14. Hull didn’t respond to the complaint.
Hull was arrested by the FBI and charged with 19 counts of health care fraud, including conspiracy charges, associated with his partial ownership and operation of Mississippi Care Partners, Inc., Oct. 2, 2007.
Pleading guilty to three counts of false statement relating to health care matters April 2008, he was sentenced in 2009 to serve five years in federal prison and pay $2,444,463,70.
According to the FBI, the case was initiated as a result of allegations that the MCP and Rehabilicare, Inc. were conducting business as the two medical institutions conspired to use non-licensed employees to falsely bill Medicaid and Medicare for ineligible and non-reimbursable physical therapy/physical medical services and to be paid for same.
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