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More Hospital Fraud

  • July 28, 2003

This story hits close to home as it addresses the industry I worked in prior to starting medical school. From 1976 to 1978 I served as the kidney transplant coordinator for the University of Illinois hospital. For those of you who don't know, anyone with chronic renal failure qualifies for a special version of Medicare that covers nearly all their expenses including dialysis and kidney transplants. Well it turns out Northwestern was fined $23,000, University of Chicago $115,000 and...