Chicago Surgeon Accused of Performing Unnecessary Tracheotomies for $160,000 Per Procedure
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A surgeon at Chicago’s Sacred Heart Hospital is accused of performing unneeded tracheotomies to enable the for-profit hospital to collect as much as $160,000 per case, Bloomberg reports. Investigators say the doctor sedated patients so much that they couldn’t breathe on their own so that he could perform a tracheotomy – or…