It’s claimed the chairman of medicine during this illegal referral investigation:
The plan to pay cardiologists to refer their patients to University Hospital was first reported Nov. 5 in The Sunday Star-Ledger. That story found doctors were paid as much as $150,000 a year for no work with the understanding that they would refer their patients to the surgery program.
Tactics such as these demonstrate how financially desperate hospitals are.
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Actually, tactics like this show how stupid and corrupt the administration of UMDNJ is. They were doing this on top of the Medicaid fraud they got busted for last year, fraud that required them to accept the oversight of a federal monitor or be indicted, with the result that the hospital would no longer be eligible to receive any federal insurance payments.
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