July 16, 2021
A former Massachusetts General Hospital anesthesiologist on Thursday called MGH's practice of running concurrent or overlapping surgeries without telling patients "a sin," as each side fought for a pretrial win in the doctor's long-running case.
June 18, 2019
A former anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital has provided enough detail to suggest the hospital may have overbilled Medicare and Medicaid for time patients spent in surgery without a teaching physician in the room, a federal judge ruled in allowing a False Claims Act suit to proceed.
October 17, 2018
A former anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital defended her second shot at a False Claims Act suit Tuesday, saying a federal court should hear the case because she has now provided evidence to show the hospital may have overbilled Medicare and Medicaid for time patients spent in surgery without a teaching physician in the room.
September 18, 2018
Massachusetts General Hospital argued Monday that a former anesthesiologist's False Claims Act lawsuit citing specific bills fails to properly show that the renowned teaching hospital overbilled government health programs for time patients spent in the care of unsupervised doctors-in-training or waiting on overbooked surgery units.
March 07, 2018
Massachusetts General Hospital told a federal judge Wednesday that a former anesthesiologist's False Claims Act suit claiming it double-booked surgeries should be tossed because the whistleblower can't prove the government had been charged for any of those procedures, an argument that drew some skepticism from the judge.
October 20, 2017
A former Massachusetts General Hospital anesthesiologist on Thursday told a federal judge that she's sufficiently shown in her qui tam suit that the hospital violated the False Claims Act when double-booking surgeries, even though she hasn't been able to provide a specific bill charging the government for those patients.