9/17/2023 0 Comments Time out procedure upmc“The laws prohibiting ‘concurrent surgeries’ are in place for a reason: to protect patients and ensure they receive appropriate and focused medical care,” said Acting U.S. Luketich’s practices violate the standard of care and the patients’ trust, and heighten the risk of serious complications. Luketich) from performing and billing the United States for “concurrent surgeries.” As importantly, the United States’ complaint alleges that Dr. According to the United States’ complaint, these practices violate the statutes and regulations governing the defendants, including those that prohibit “teaching physicians” (like Dr. Luketich – the longtime chair of UPMC’s Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery – regularly performs as many as three, complex surgical procedures at the same time, fails to participate in all of the “key and critical” portions of his surgeries, and forces his patients to endure hours of medically unnecessary anesthesia time, as he moves between operating rooms and attends to other patients or matters. More specifically, the complaint alleges that Dr. The United States’ complaint – which was based on a two-year investigation into allegations originally brought by a former UPMC physician under the False Claims Act’s whistleblower provisions – alleges that the defendants knowingly submitted hundreds of materially false claims for payment to Medicare, Medicaid, and other government health benefit programs over the past six years. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Acting U.S. PITTSBURGH, PA – The United States has filed a complaint under the False Claims Act against the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), University of Pittsburgh Physicians, and James Luketich, M.D., in the U.S.
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