Hospital Accused of Unnecessary Throat Surgeries Closes Abruptly
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Chicago’s Sacred Heart Hospital, where the owner and two physicians are under an investigation for allegedly unneeded tracheotomies, closed abruptly Monday after what owner Edward Novak called a cutoff of federal funding.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services decided in early May “to suspend all payments” for hospital services to Sacred Heart patients, said Novak, who had also served as Sacred Heart’s chief executive, in a written statement Tuesday. Novak was arrested in April for trading money for patient referrals.