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June 26, 2009 (Lafayette, Louisiana) ? An interventional cardiologist who implanted stents in patients who did not need them has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for healthcare fraud. Dr Mehmood Patel, formerly of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital and Lafayette General Hospital in Louisiana, was convicted on 51 counts of billing private and government health insurers for unnecessary medical procedures and received the maximum sentence.

Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital and Lafayette General Hospital both suspended Patel's privileges in late 2003 or early 2004 as a result of their own internal investigations. Elisabeth Arnold, a spokesperson at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center, told heartwire that the hospital reached legal closure on the
issue long before Patel's sentencing.

The hospital paid $3.8 million in 2006 to settle a US Department of Justice false-claims lawsuit and also paid an additional $7.4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by Patel's former patients. Arnold noted that in the past several years, the hospital has "increased physician leadership in our organization, implemented more stringent policies, and improved peer-review initiatives."