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Audit criticizes state medical board for backlog of complaints
The state Board of Physicians has a serious backlog of complaints and a growing timeline for resolving it, according to a newly released legislative audit of the agency charged with protecting the public from bad doctors.
It also isn't keeping complete...Tags: National Government, General Practitioners, Government, Concerts, Salmonella Infection
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Stent doctor's fraud lawsuit transferred to Baltimore County
A $60 million fraud lawsuit filed by Dr. Mark Midei against St. Joseph Medical Center — the Towson hospital that claimed he performed unnecessary stent procedures — was transferred to Baltimore County on Monday by a city judge who also threw...Tags: Trials, Fraud, Towson, Lawyers, Justice System
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Cardiologist defends himself at license hearing
The Towson cardiologist accused of placing cardiac stents into patients who didn't need them had a chance to defend himself Wednesday before the Maryland Board of Physicians, which is deciding whether the doctor should retain his license. The board...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Towson, St. Joseph Medical Center, Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Midei: I acted in the patients' best interests
In the near future, I will appear before the Maryland Board of Physicians where I will have the long-awaited opportunity to meet with my peers and make the case for retaining my license to practice medicine. In the meantime, I take the opportunity now...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Medical Services, Towson, St. Joseph Medical Center, Hospitals and Clinics
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Federal report on stent procedures finds potential fraud
While Dr. Mark Midei was allegedly implanting unnecessary cardiac stents in hundreds of patients at a Towson hospital, stent manufacturer Abbott Laboratories was paying for crab and barbecue feasts at his Monkton home and building a business strategy...Tags: Medicaid, Bribery, Justice System, Health Care Reform (2009), Finance
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Physician pay, medical disclosure rules criticized
The payments and "VIP trips" given to a Maryland cardiologist by Abbott Laboratories for parties and consulting work — disclosed in a federal report released Monday — are just what new legislation and industry guidelines are supposed to...Tags: Business Trips, Justice System, Bribery, Health Care Reform (2009), Mardi Gras
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Probe focuses on heart stents
Baltimore Sun reporterSt. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, whose cardiology business is a focus of a continuing federal health-care fraud investigation, has notified hundreds of its heart patients that they may have received expensive and potentially dangerous coronary...Tags: Physical Therapists, Lawyers, Justice System, Medical Research, Plastic Surgeons
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Timeline: Mark Midei and the stents case
January 2008: Dr. Mark Midei leaves MidAtlantic Cardiovascular Associates to become a full-time employee of St. Joseph Medical Center, leading a former colleague to vow revenge against him. April 27, 2009: A MidAtlantic cardiologist informs one of Midei'...Tags: Corporate Crime, Abbott Laboratories, Health and Medical Professionals, St. Joseph Medical Center, Bribery
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Stent sellers were allowed inside lab despite hospital ban
Salespeople for stent maker Abbott Laboratories were often allowed inside a cardiac treatment room at St. Joseph Medical Center while patient procedures were being performed, despite hospital rules against it, according to sworn testimony from Dr. Mark G....Tags: Justice System, Lawyers, Judges, Plastic Surgeons, Medical Research
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Federal investigators to supervise stent doctors
Federal investigators have ordered St. Joseph Medical Center to conduct annual, random audits of its cardiac care practice to verify that the procedures performed there are necessary, in the wake of allegations that Dr. Mark G. Midei placed heart stents...Tags: Legal Services, Bribery, Justice System, Lawyers, Plastic Surgeons
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