UT Southwestern Feeling the Heat

As UT Southwestern's leadership wiggles deeper and deeper into this quicksand, I have one question: where is the UT System in all of this? In the not-too-distant past the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and now UT Southwestern have all gotten the attention of the Feds. This is not rocket science. Even I understand that a faculty physician must supervise a resident. It seems to me that ensuring compliance with that simple fact wouldn't be hard to do, and it also seems to me that the System Office ought to be interested, assuming that doing the right thing is interesting to the System Office.

UT Southwestern responds to our report on feds investigating possible Medicare, Medicaid fraud | DMN INVESTIGATES Blog | dallasnews.com

Late this afternoon, UT Southwestern Medical Center posted online a written statement from President Daniel Podolsky, calling our story Sunday "misleading and incomplete."

Be sure to see UT Southwestern's own internal audit report. Here's an interesting analysis of that audit report.

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