Prattville resident Gerald Cimis has been warning the Prattville City Council for more than two years that it is breaking the law by providing third-party health care benefits to part-time attorneys.
Even if offering the benefits to the attorneys were legal, Cimis said the city is “playing Russian roulette” as it could ultimately be stuck with the bill if its catastrophic insurance provider finds that the city’s attorneys weren’t eligible for its plan.
Cimis isn’t just any resident: in addition to serving 20 years as a clinician in dentistry, he also worked as an independent medical consultant for the Alabama Medicaid Agency and Alabama Attorney General’s Office for many years, investigating both state and federal healthcare insurance fraud cases…