Critical government survey interrupted at Parkland Memorial Hospital for unknown reasons

[TexasTowelie]

As reported last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched a critical survey a week ago of Dallas County’s public hospital that would decide the fate of its state and federal funding.

The survey was supposed to be “24/7? and take as long as needed to determine if Parkland Memorial Hospital had made the necessary changes to assure patient safety.

But without explanation, the survey team left the hospital Friday before concluding its work.

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... Parkland could lose its state and federal funding, which amounts to more than $400 million annually in Medicare and Medicaid dollars or roughly a third of its income.

More at http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2013/06/critical-government-survey-interrupted-at-parkland-memorial-hospital-for-unknown-reasons.html/ .

[font color=green]I have never witnessed any type of audit halted during the evaluation process. It can't be good news for this to occur and someone discovered something that would either have a devastating impact on patient care or a large scale case of a crime such as embezzlement or fraud.[/font]

[JimDandy]

1. One of the good things this admin

has done is to focus on decreasing fraud in the medicare and medicaid system. Be interesting to see if this morphed into a case of fraud.