Erschienen in:
01.08.2014 | Not the Last Word
Defending Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
verfasst von:
Joseph Bernstein, MD
Erschienen in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 8/2014
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Excerpt
Medicine may be a noble profession, but its members do not always act nobly. In Maryland, a cardiologist was convicted for “documenting” coronary artery disease that did not exist, inserting stents into vessels that did not need them, and submitting fraudulent medical bills for that effort [
15]. In New York, an orthopaedic surgeon was sentenced to 8 years in prison for using his medical practice as a disability mill [
16]. …