For seven years, heart surgeons at a Texas medical center allegedly ran multiple operating rooms at once and left complex parts of procedures to their 'unqualified' trainees before submitting false claims to Medicare.
Doctors gambled with their patients' care during complicated open-heart surgeries, compromising quality over quantity, overseeing multiple operations, and falsely billing Medicare.
The $15 million settlement involving simultaneous surgeries is the largest, with a whistleblower receiving $3 million for reporting the surgeons' actions in 2019.
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