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MedStar Health has agreed to pay $35 million to resolve allegations the hospital system paid kickbacks to a cardiology group in Pikesville in exchange for referrals, according to a statement from Robert Hur, the U.S. attorney for Maryland and other federal investigators. 

It wasn't just Dr. Thomas Smyth's impressive résumé that made Francis X. Kelly, chairman of the board of the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, covet Thomas Smyth to become the president and CEO of the Towson hospital. It was Smyth's intimate knowledge — from patient to practitioner — of the 232-bed acute-care hospital located on 39 acres in the heart of Towson.

Dr. Mohan Suntha, credited for turning around University of Maryland's St. Joseph Medical Center after a scandal with one of its cardiologists, has been tapped

University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center plans to embark on a $100 million renovation of its operating rooms – the first major capital project since a scandal involving one of its former doctors plunged the hospital into financial distress.

After 150 years, the aim of University of Maryland, St. Joseph Medical Center is still compassionate care. Just ask Sister Evelyn Grudza, one of five Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, who have worked at the hospital for decades and who believe, their job is to continue the mission of the three Franciscan sisters who opened St. Joseph's German Catholic Hospital in three donated rowhouses in East Baltimore in 1864.

A $37 million settlement between the former owner of St. Joseph Medical Center and hundreds of patients of cardiologist Mark G. Midei who allege they received unnecessary heart stent procedures was approved by a Baltimore City Circuit Court judge on Friday.

The former owner of St. Joseph Medical Center has agreed to pay out up to $37 million to resolve allegations that cardiologist Mark G. Midei put hundreds of patients through unnecessary heart stent procedures, according to court documents.

Lawyers have reached settlements in two pending class action cases alleging that former cardiologist Mark G. Midei performed unnecessary stent procedures at St. Joseph Medical Center, according to the hospital's former owner.

After scandal, lost doctors and patients, University of Maryland Medical System bolsters St. Joseph

Attorneys for a former patient of Dr. Mark Midei said he was careless, rushing into stenting a patient's heart, while the cardiologist's lawyers said he was providing necessary care.

A lawsuit alleges that Dr. Mark Midei cost Glenn Weinberg at least $50 million in lost work.

Nearly 250 of the patients who accused cardiologist Dr. Mark Midei of performing unnecessary stent procedures at St. Joseph Medical Center settled their lawsuits against him Thursday, a major step forward in one of the largest medical malpractice cases in state history.

The previous owner of University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center has agreed to pay the federal government $4.9 million for overbilling Medicaid and Medicare by keeping patients in the hospital longer than needed.

Towson's St. Joseph Medical Center is now part of the University of Maryland Medical System, a much-welcome development but one that also raises questions

Former state Sen. Francis Kelly helped engineer the deal that will bring St. Joseph's Medical Center in the University of Maryland Medical System, effectively throwing a lifeline to his local hospital.

The University of Maryland Medical System completes its acquisition of St. Joseph Medical Center

Radiation Oncologist Mohan Suntha was named Thursday as the president of the newly created University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, officials announced as the merger of the two entities is finalized.

Radiation Oncologist Mohan Suntha was named Thursday as the president of the newly created University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, officials announced as the merger of the two entities is finalized.

The University of Maryland Medical System said Wednesday that it expects to complete its acquisition of St. Joseph Medical Center on Dec. 1, nearly a year after the Towson hospital sought a buyer as it looked to recover from the fallout of one of its doctors performing unnecessary cardiac procedures.

A Towson law firm has accused eight more doctors of playing a role in implanting unnecessary heart stents in patients at St. Joseph Medical Center where cardiologist Dr. Mark Midei has been accused of performing the same procedures in hundreds of patients who didn't need them.

Midei had sued St. Joseph Medical Center over stent scandal

University of Maryland Medical System to buy St. Joseph Medical Center

Towson hospital declines to name selection; Catholic Health Initiatives has final say

Stent doctor Mark Midei's lawyers cast the surgeon as a scapegoat in an effort to bring his case against St. Joseph Medical Center to trial.

LifeBridge Health, Ascension Health and University of Maryland Medical System considered for strategic partnership

Citing 'performance improvement initiative,' St. Joseph Medical Center cuts 17 positions

If St. Joseph Medical Center were forced to close it would represent a tremendous loss to the community and to the patients who found hope and survival there

The year 2011 as seen through the rear-view mirror, the high- and the low lights of the year in Baltimore and Maryland

Liability among the hurdles St. Joseph hospital faces in attracting strategic partnership

The University of Maryland Medical System and LifeBridge Health are among five suitors vying for a partnership with St. Joseph Medical Center, though a deal will likely be complicated by the embattled hospital's poor financial situation.

A state advisory group on Thursday recommended legislative changes to bolster oversight of coronary stent placements amid widespread concerns about unnecessary medical procedures, but it stopped short of proposing that state law regulate physician reviews in hospitals.

A Maryland Health Care Commission committee has been developing safeguards to prevent implantation of unnecessary stents. But one of its members — Dr. John Chung-Yee Wang — is himself accused of improper stenting in three separate legal claims

Mark Midei tells his side of the stent story in an exclusive interview with The Baltimore Sun, his first extended comments since inquiries into unnecessary medical procedures were initiated against him in May 2009.

State auditors find complaint backlog, lack of transparency at state Board of Physicians

John R. McLean, a Salisbury physician, was sentenced to eight years in federal prison Thursday, making him the second cardiologist in the country to face incarceration for implanting unnecessary coronary stents in dozens of patients, then fraudulently billing thousands for the work.

Union Memorial Hospital and the chief of its cardiac catheterization lab have been sued by a Baltimore woman who claims that she unnecessarily had stents placed in her arteries

Revenue down at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson as it seeks a strategic partnership

A Baltimore law firm lost a portable hard drive containing information about its cases, including medical records for 161 stent patients suing Dr. Mark G. Midei for alleged malpractice at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson.