Alvarado,CEO, Tenet Plead Not Guilty to Kickback Charges.

Reports that chief executive officer Barry Weinbaum of Alvarado Hospital Medical Center and Tenet HealthSystem Hospitals Inc. have pleaded not guilty on federal charges of paying illegal kickbacks to physicians for patient referrals in Sand Diego, California. Accusations of paying millions of dollars to recruit doctors to the East County service in Alvarado in exchange for referring patients to the La Mesa hospital; Legality of the relocation agreements; Concerns on the billing practices of the hospital.