The Dallas Morning News blog on the Fed investigation of UT Southwestern and Parkland Memorial

The trail just keeps getting bigger. Be sure to check out the "resident supervision chart of clinical privileges" posted by the Dallas Morning News. You know, all you have to do is switch the "a" and the "i" in trail, and you have yourself a trial.

Feds probing whether UT Southwestern, Parkland committed Medicare, Medicaid billing fraud | DMN INVESTIGATES Blog | dallasnews.com

The two institutions grant residents great autonomy in treating patients at Parkland. That policy is spelled out in a "resident supervision chart of clinical privileges." We obtained a copy, and it shows, for instance, that second-year medical residents can remove an appendix by themselves.

Click on the highlighted text to see the Chart of Clinical Privileges.

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