HealthCare Notes

6/17/13

Chicago Hospital 'Accused of Cutting Throats for $160,000'

Chicago Hospital 'Accused of Cutting Throats for $160,000'
"Based in part on surreptitious tape recordings, an FBI affidavit lays out allegations that a Sacred Heart pulmonologist kept patients too sedated to breathe on their own, then ordered unneeded tracheotomies for them -- enabling the for-profit hospital to reap revenue of as much as $160,000 per case."