Whistleblower's attorney says Baylor St. Luke's heart surgeons were routinely double or triple-booking surgeries

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Whistleblower's attorney says Baylor St. Luke's heart surgeons were routinely double or triple-booking surgeries
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According to the feds, Dr. David Ott, 77, of Houston, Dr. Joseph Coselli, 71, of Houston and Dr. Joseph Lamelas, 63, of Miami, are accused of regularly leaving opera

Baylor St. Luke’s, Baylor College of Medicine and Surgical Associates of Texas have jointly agreed to pay a record $15 million following the whistleblower complaint., Dr. David Ott, 77, of Houston, Dr. Joseph Coselli, 71, of Houston and Dr. Joseph Lamelas, 63, of Miami, Florida, are accused of regularly leaving operating rooms during complicated and risky heart surgeries and leaving patients in the hands of unqualified medical residents.

The whistleblower's attorney claims the surgeons falsely led Medicare to believe they were present during the entire surgery. “Patients entrusted these surgeons with their lives - submitting to operations where one missed cut is the difference between life and death,” U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani said Monday. “Allegedly, the patients were unaware their doctor was leaving for another operating room."

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