Former New York Surgeon Sentenced To 4.5 Years In Federal Prison
March 22, 2014
A former New York orthopedic surgeon who admitted to defrauding the U.S. government and health insurance providers in a scheme that ran from 2007 and 2011, during which the surgeon and his medical practice filed claims in excess of $35 million that resulted in $13 million in payments, was sentence[...]
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Former Indiana Surgeon Sentenced To Seven Years In Prison
October 20, 2012
On October 12, 2012, a former Indiana surgeon was sentenced by a federal judge to seven years in federal prison, twice the amount of time recommended by federal sentencing guidelines, as a result of his conviction for billing patients and their insurance companies for procedures that he had not per[...]
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Maryland Medical Malpractice Settlement For Death Of 7-Year-Old
September 26, 2012
It has been reported that a Maryland medical malpractice claim involving the death of a 7-year-old boy who died in 2009 as a result of alleged medical malpractice arising from hernia repair surgery performed by an urologist on December 18, 2008 has been settled for an undisclosed sum. The medical [...]
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New Mexico $2 Million Verdict For Bad Back Surgery
September 24, 2012
On September 7, 2012, a medical malpractice jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico returned its verdict in the amount of $2 million after five days of trial and deliberating for less than three hours, in favor of a man whose back surgery in May, 2008 resulted in the man suffering cardiac arrest 36 hours late[...]
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Donated Kidney Thrown Out With The Trash During Surgery
September 1, 2012
On August 10, 2012, at Ohio’s University of Toledo Medical Center, a man voluntarily had surgery to have one of his healthy kidneys removed so that it could be implanted into his sister, who desperately needed a kidney transplant. In what appears to have been an unfathomable hospital error[...]
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