Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Md., has agreed to pay $1.8 million to settle federal claims that it failed to prevent its cardiologist from implanting medically unnecessary stents in dozens of patients from 2003-2006, according to a Baltimore Sun report.
John R. McLean, MD, was convicted last month of healthcare fraud and other charges related to his practice of falsifying patient records to create a need for stents, then billing insurers for hundreds of thousands of dollars for the procedure. He will be sentenced Nov. 10.
The hospital admits no liability under the settlement. It has also agreed to repay any federal funds it received for Dr. McLean's unnecessary stents.
Read the Baltimore Sun report on Peninsula Regional Medical Center and stents.
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John R. McLean, MD, was convicted last month of healthcare fraud and other charges related to his practice of falsifying patient records to create a need for stents, then billing insurers for hundreds of thousands of dollars for the procedure. He will be sentenced Nov. 10.
The hospital admits no liability under the settlement. It has also agreed to repay any federal funds it received for Dr. McLean's unnecessary stents.
Read the Baltimore Sun report on Peninsula Regional Medical Center and stents.
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