Two men file lawsuits against West Virginia hospital alleging unnecessary cardiac procedures
Plaintiffs recently filed two lawsuits against Raleigh General Hospital in West Virginia claiming a former surgeon performed unnecessary cardiac procedures, the West Virginia Record reports.
The website mentioned that two men filed the lawsuits against cardiac surgeon Donald Kenneth Glaser, MD, for procedures performed in 2010 and 2011. They claimed Glaser inserted medically unnecessary stents in them.
Glaser, LifePoint Health, LifePoint Hospitals and LifePoint WV Holdings are the other defendants named in the lawsuits.
In 2010, Glaser’s first full year as director of Raleigh General Hospital’s interventional cardiology unit, the hospital performed 1,745 cardiac procedures, up from 350 the previous year. The hospital performed approximately 1,700 cardiac procedures in 2011 and 2,109 cardiac procedures in 2012. Glaser stopped working at Raleigh General in 2013.
Since January 2015, at least 16 lawsuits have been filed against the defendants due to alleged unnecessary cardiac procedures, according to the West Virginia Record.
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