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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