October 23, 2006
A whistleblower suit alleges that an Arkansas doctor defrauded Medicare and other federal health programs by performing unnecessary heart surgeries.
The suit, which charges Doctor David Mark McCoy and Saint Edward Mercy Medical Center of Fort Smith, Arkansas, of violating the False Claims Act, was filed by a former patient who claims that
unnecessary heart surgery, and complications from that procedure, led to the amputation of his leg.
The October 14, 2006 Associated Press report can be read at the KAIT-TV website.