Unnecessary surgery suit settled

Three years after a raid by FBI agents at Tenet's Redding Medical Center focused national attention on the company, two heart surgeons are accused of conducting unnecessary heart surgeries on hundreds of Medicare patients. Heart Surgeon Fidel Realyvasquez and cardiologist Chae Moon have agreed to civil settlements. Both doctors will pay fines of $1.4 million. The inquiry into billing practices at the hospital is generally seen as a turning point that began a run of epic bad luck for Tenet, leading it to shift its headquarters from Santa Barbara, CA, to Dallas and sell off its California hospitals.

- see this article from The Wall Street Journal (sub. req.)

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