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Showing posts with label Orthopedic. Show all posts
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Friday, August 9, 2013

Orthopedic Surgeon Spyros Pranos Medical Fraud, 250 Law suits?. a Doctor who Faked and Botched Surgery, what an Evil?

Latest Update:
ABC News:  
Judgment Day for Surgeon Who Admitted to Fake Surgeries
PHOTO: Dr. Spyros Panos pleaded guilty to performing fake and negligent surgeries more than 250 times. An orthopedic surgeon who admitted to botching and faking thousands of surgeries over a five-year period was sentenced today to four-and-a-half years in federal prison for one count of health care fraud.
Dr. Spyros Panos, who practiced medicine in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., pleaded guilty to one count of health care fraud last October. In addition to his sentence, he was fined $250,000 and ordered to pay the government $5 million as restitution for false and overstated Medicare charges. He was also ordered to surrender all licenses to practice medicine in states where it had not already been suspended. 
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Orthopedic surgeon Dr.Pranos seems to have  had detailed OP notes about treatments to his patients but that never took place?, hmmm....it seems he scheduled as large as 22 surgeries in a single day?, now he is under scrutiny and more than 250 law suits been filed.
Orthopedic Surgeon Sued Over Fraudulent Cases

Spyros Panos, MD, who practiced in suburban Dutchess County, N.Y., north of New York City, is said to have scheduled as many as 22 surgeries in a day, according to his former patients' attorneys. He has reportedly failed to adequately cement joint replacement components, implanted incorrect components and carried out an unneeded rotators cuff repair while ignoring a fractured clavicle.
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