Lifestyle and Budget

Hospital chain to pay $513 million to settle kickback claims

Texas-based Tenet Healthcare Corp. and two of its Atlanta subsidiaries have agreed to pay more than $513 million to resolve criminal and civil claims accusing the chain of paying kickbacks to steer pregnant Medicaid patients to their hospitals.

WHY IT MATTERS: Taxes

THE ISSUE: Politicians love trying to use the tax code to highlight their goals to voters.