Louisiana cardiologist settles $3 million malpractice case

August 28, 2008 – A Louisiana cardiologist is in the first stages of a trial that began this week after he was indicted in 2006 on 93 counts of health care fraud and medical malpractice.

The Lafayette cardiologist is accused of billing public and private health benefit programs for medically unnecessary cardiac procedures on patients between 2001 and 2004.

As the federal case against the doctor gets under way, one of several class-action lawsuits involving him was recently settled for more than $3 million. According to court records, the plaintiffs in the suit were several of the people who claimed to have undergone unnecessary cardiac medical procedures by the surgeon between 1996 and 2004.

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