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‘According to the indictment, medical residents in the clinic tried to avoid Kubacki when they needed the opinion of a more experienced doctor, “in part due to their concerns that Kubacki regularly abused alcohol on days that he worked at the main campus” of the hospital.’

And he was chair. Of Temple University’s opthalmology department.

An alleged alcoholic; and an alleged fraudster.

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a 144-count indictment against Kubacki for

falsely claiming between 2002 and 2007 to have provided more than $1.5 million in services to patients at a clinic run by the ophthalmology department. The indictment says Kubacki… made notations in the charts of patients, seen by other doctors, indicating that he also had seen and evaluated those patients – when he hadn’t. In some cases, he wasn’t even in town when the patients were seen.

His false statements, the government said, allowed Temple to bill Medicare and other insurance companies for more than $1.5 million.

For Temple, there are questions of repayment as well as questions of responsibility. How long did it maintain a department chair apparently scorned by students because he was drunk? (Patients, of course, didn’t have the option of avoiding him.) Why did it take five years for Temple to notice the Medicare fraud? And why isn’t there a statement somewhere on Temple’s website about all of this? There should be.

Margaret Soltan, January 26, 2011 5:47AM
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