Irving clinic wasted $2M on spinning-chair treatment for veterans, audit finds

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By Sue Ambrose

An Irving clinic wasted over $2 million in taxpayer dollars and risked the health of dozens of veterans in a medical study that included spinning them upside down in a chair, according to a scathing state audit released Friday.

The state’s top health agency said in 2013 that it hoped the clinic’s yearlong study would result in a new treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. But the study was so poorly designed it was impossible to tell whether the treatment worked, according to investigators.

The state is demanding the clinic repay $278,000 it charged for veterans who were not Texas residents or were treated more than once.

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