tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2010 Issue 3

HOSPITAL RISK MANAGEMENT: Head Off the Specter of Surgeons Performing Unneeded Procedures

4 strategies can help, including knowing these key warning signs. Talk about a PR and legal disaster: Media reports that a prominent cardiologist at a hospital may have implanted stents in patients who didn't need them. That scenario continues to play out for a Maryland hospital in a case that provides a cautionary reminder for hospitals to think through how to prevent a similar situation or at least nip it in the bud.Bad news: The Maryland hospital where the surgeon practiced has "sent letters to hundreds of patients... telling them that the extensive stents in their arteries may...

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