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Happy Holidays to all.
Once again, for those new to this blog site, at present there are 46 posts on the blog and each has its own set of comments. To read the comments you have to hit the word "Comments" at the beginning or end of the post. Somewhat confusing is that when you bring up the comments for a specific post it eliminates the other posts from the screen. To bring the other posts back up simply go back to the top of the page and click on Blog. Feel free to comment should you wish. No email address is required to make a comment so anonymity is strong. Due to some previous abuse of this right to anonymously comment, I have had to include an approval option, but I try to approve within 24 hours. One last point of note, to read the earliest posts you have to click on the word "<<Previous" at the very bottom of the posts available. Finally, for those just looking for a good summary of the Dr. Kearney case, simply scroll down to the previous 12/10/2016 post. For social media developments on the Dr. Kearney situation I would encourage you to visit the excellent "Save Dr. Kearney Facebook Page":
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16 Comments
Deep End
12/19/2017 03:58:27 pm
Sorry but I am confused. The role UK Cardiology played in the prosecution of Kings Daughter. KDMC was notorious and well known for inappropriate procedures and got what they deserved. If UK cardiologists played a role they would have gotten money for it as whistleblowers which was never reported. Similar to Baptist cardiologists who blew the whistle on St Joe's London:
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Wow
12/20/2017 07:57:33 am
This is taking your conspiracies theories to an entirely new level... The truth is out there!.
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Dan Noonan
12/20/2017 10:58:56 am
Thanks for the comments Deep End and Wow. From the speed and intensity of your response, it kind of looks like I might have touched a nerve with this one. I am sure you are right in your declarations of innocence and altruistic behavior on the part of UK Healthcare. I mean what could hospitals like UK and Central Baptist ever have to gain by St. Joes going under? Nothing right?
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Deep End
12/20/2017 02:04:09 pm
Again I am confused. If General Motors was building cars that were accident prone, and Toyota uncovered the scandal and told the government about it, would that be a bad thing?
Wow
12/20/2017 11:14:12 am
Firstly the Hazard cardiology payback was not about unnecessary surgical procedures, it was about effectively bundling the costs of basic physical exams with the cardiology services. And its essentially settled. So there is zero possibility of the DOJ picking this up as a Qui Tam suit. Maybe it could be a bovis stercus suit?
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Dan Noonan
12/20/2017 02:58:57 pm
Thanks for the comment Wow. Wow Wow, I love all of the lawyer speak you provide here. It really supports the contention that this stuff touches a nerve. I must confess, the problem I have with lawyer speak is that it has me constantly checking my back pockets.
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Will
12/21/2017 04:30:23 am
Thanks for adding some life to the blog. I’m with you on this one Dan. UK HealthCare is clearly not the saint that Deep End would like us to believe them to be. I think they got off easy with the $4,100,000.00. With regard to the Kearney case, I’m of the opinion that it all started back at that Faculty Council meeting wherein he suggested the audit of KMSF. Common, you don’t do all the things they did to him simply because he used improper language in a trauma ward while attempting to save some persons life. Furthermore you do not spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to block every attempt to access KMSF records though open records laws if you don’t have anything to hide. You want to shut everyone up then simply allow that public audit of KMSF (essentially taxpayer money). What the hey, you’ve had nearly 3 years to cook the books.
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Dan Noonan
12/21/2017 07:41:39 am
Thanks for the comment Will. I tend to agree with you. The Faculty Council discussions concerning the mystery Practice Plan Committee and its potential for mismanagement of UK HealthCare/public university revenue resulted in the EVPHA requesting a special meeting of the Faculty Council to discuss a “legal matter”. This by itself points to a legal concern with respect to what was being discussed by the Council. Then we had the suggestion by Dr. Kearney at this special meeting of the Faculty Council that a public audit of KMSF might help clarify the concerns aired. This of course resulted in the statement made by the EVPHA that multiple people interpreted as a threat and subsequently a statement by the university lawyer (General Council Bill Thro) attending this meeting that in essence suggested this matter was none of the Faculty Council’s business. Very shortly after that we had the extreme UK HealthCare/KMSF employee organized vendetta against Dr. Kearney that resulted in his loss of clinical privileges, expulsion from the university and a variety of other absurd mandates. They even went so far in their character assassination to tell the folks in his office area that he was considered a “dangerous person”. Again, this was all predicated upon a behavior that these administrators endorsed for over 25 years with outstanding performance evaluations, tenure, promotion to full professor, an endowment and a variety of teaching awards. So I guess the courts will have to decide whether or not this was retaliation. They also will probably need to clarify whether the concerns with respect to KMSF financial mismanagement as it was aired through the avenue of the Practice Plan Committee might also extend to other areas such as the Hazard debacle and who knows what else. Like you, I feel the university and UK HealthCare’s willingness to invest huge sums of money for outside lawyers to fight the public audit of KMSF only fuels the fire with respect to the financial mismanagement issues, and with it the attempts to silence Dr. Kearney.
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Dan Noonan
12/21/2017 07:47:21 am
Just an FYI. As mentioned in previous posts, I tend to automatically delete comments that are overly insulting or use crude language.
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S. Claus
12/21/2017 10:35:44 am
Just a few tidbits of what Santa has heard about the role UK Cardiology played in the prosecution of Kings Daughter. Dr. Paulus, the cardiologist who was at the center of this was exonerated in Federal Court by Judge Bunning. There were many experts who supported Dr. Paulus. The major prosecution witness against Dr. Paulus was UK’s David Moliterno MD. Although maybe of no relevance, I think it also interesting to note that the wife of Assistant US Attorney Andrew Sparks who prosecuted KDMC, is an employee of UK Cardiology.
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Dan Noonan
12/21/2017 10:53:45 am
Thanks for taking the time out of your busy day to comment on the blog. It sounds like you know more about this than I may even wish to know, so I will leave it at that. Merry Christmas to you, Mrs. Claus and all of your helpers.
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Elf on the shelf
12/23/2017 09:15:15 am
UK is no saint. I'm waiting to see how all this works out, but examples of fraud at UK are rampant.
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Dan Noonan
12/23/2017 11:28:11 am
Thanks for the comment Elf and Merry Christmas to you and your family. Interesting post. Not being a physician I know little about this stuff, but I do remember when I was on Faculty Council that the physician faculty on that council aired concerns that the RVU system tended to emphasize quantity of care, which could have an impact on quality of care.
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Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest
1/8/2018 09:32:32 am
Moliterno was one of 14 other physicians who provided expert testimony for the Paulus case.
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Dan Noonan
1/9/2018 08:21:01 am
Well just for clarification purposes, one last response to a comment made in this missing post. Thank you for your comment Still, and I apologize for the delay in my response and for only posting a response to the last of your many other comments sent in the past week or so. They all basically aired the same message/complaints. Before I respond I would like to also state that for “private reasons” I removed this blog post. This does not mean that I am shutting down the blog, but rather waiting till matters more germane to the Dr. Kearney case surface. So in other words, keep monitoring.
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Does this involve kmsf?
2/16/2018 11:32:57 am
Critics say UK abused power by having state collect debts. Judge orders it to stop.
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