Monday, December 6, 2010

Just follow the Money for Cardiac Stents

History repeats itself again with the new expose' in the New York Times about the Baltimore Cardiologist who inserted (at the least) 585 stents in patients who did not need them.  On one single day he inserted 30 stents!  I didn't know there was that much time even available in the cardiac cath lab but with Medicare reporting payments of $3.8 million for a two year period to Dr. Mark Midei,  I

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