Surgeons manning two open heart rooms at once.

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$15M settlement reached after doctors allegedly left heart surgeries to perform other operations

Texas Medical Center institutions agreed to pay the multimillion-dollar settlement after three heart surgeons were accused of leaving in the middle of open heart surgeries to perform other operations.

abc13.com

 

[JoelJoel84]

I need to whistleblow on something soon and retire.
Same nonsense, to different degrees, everywhere.

 

[addoncase]

I maybe wrong but I feel that they just pay the fines because in the grand scheme of it all (no pun intended) they come out ahead anyway…

 

[deleted1183938]

I need to whistleblow on something soon and retire.
Same nonsense, to different degrees, everywhere.

Me too!! And I think I have a case of Medicare Fraud at one of the locums places I have worked.

 

[aneftp]

Me too!! And I think I have a case of Medicare Fraud at one of the locums places I have worked.

I tried to blow the lid off OIG 12-06 opinion with gi kickbacks and stark laws

Actually spoke to the attorneys at the OIG office 3 different times in 2012 and than 2016. It’s a long tedious process. The time to get my 10% of the 2 billion fine was 2013. That’s all I really wanted. 10%

So much corruption plus laziness in govt officials not enforcing or selectively enforcing kickbacks

Now the OIG through lobbying efforts have reverse their decision after 9 years of back and forth

OIG Publishes Favorable Advisory Opinion Related to the Employment Safe Harbor

In an advisory opinion posted November 10, 2021 (AO 21-15), the Office of the Inspector General of the United States Department of Health and Human

www.healthcarelawbrief.com

 

[kidthor]

I tried to blow the lid off OIG 12-06 opinion with gi kickbacks and stark laws

Actually spoke to the attorneys at the OIG office 3 different times in 2012 and than 2016. It’s a long tedious process. The time to get my 10% of the 2 billion fine was 2013. That’s all I really wanted. 10%

So much corruption plus laziness in govt officials not enforcing or selectively enforcing kickbacks

Now the OIG through lobbying efforts have reverse their decision after 9 years of back and forth

OIG Publishes Favorable Advisory Opinion Related to the Employment Safe Harbor

In an advisory opinion posted November 10, 2021 (AO 21-15), the Office of the Inspector General of the United States Department of Health and Human

www.healthcarelawbrief.com

Same here - In the past I've reported egregious things including surgeons who never show up to the hospital at all and have their residents do the whole operation unsupervised, and also surgeons who had surgeries going simultaneously at two different hospitals. But oddly no reporting agency seems to care.

 

[kidthor]

I maybe wrong but I feel that they just pay the fines because in the grand scheme of it all (no pun intended) they come out ahead anyway…

Yeah in my opinion they should go to jail - which is an available route for Medicare fraud. Paying a mere $15 million is essentially nothing in the grand scheme of things.

 

[Maz777]

Good for you guys for speaking up.

I see it every day. Mainly ortho and spine running concurrent cases all day every day. Attesting to being there for the critical steps, but in fact the attending just stays in one room and never steps foot in the other. Blatantly fraudulent. Everyone knows it is happening but no one cares.

 

[1halfMVsquared]

This nothing new and is probably happening at most hospitals. There just needs to be more appropriate documentation for concurrent billing. You can't say you were present for every portion of the procedure if you are running 2+ rooms.

 

[deleted87051]

Good for you guys for speaking up.

I see it every day. Mainly ortho and spine running concurrent cases all day every day. Attesting to being there for the critical steps, but in fact the attending just stays in one room and never steps foot in the other. Blatantly fraudulent. Everyone knows it is happening but no one cares.

Why even have fellows if you can’t run 3 concurrent spine rooms?😉 How else are you going to make $2-3mil/yr?

 

[deleted1183938]

Good for you guys for speaking up.

I see it every day. Mainly ortho and spine running concurrent cases all day every day. Attesting to being there for the critical steps, but in fact the attending just stays in one room and never steps foot in the other. Blatantly fraudulent. Everyone knows it is happening but no one cares.

Have you reported it?

 

[GassYous]

Why even have fellows if you can’t run 3 concurrent spine rooms?😉 How else are you going to make $2-3mil/yr?

I know a guy making double that with one room

 

[deleted1183938]

I know a guy making double that with one room

I bet he has lots of complications.

 

[coffeebythelake]

I bet he has lots of complications.

Rest assured someone else is following up and dealing with his complications