Maryland Mulls Midei Case as Cardiology Orgs Ask Legislators to Leave Policing Procedures to Doctors

There is no word yet from the Maryland Medical Board as to what action, if any, it will be taking against former St Joseph's department of cardiology chair Dr Mark Midei, after a private meeting with him August 4, 2010, or against any other hospitals identified by the board has having conspicuously high stent-procedure volumes. Lawyers for Midei have told heartwire that their client can't tell his side of the story while a review of his cases is continuing. His medical license is listed as "active."

As previously reported by heartwire , Midei was removed of his privileges at St Joseph Medical Center in Towson, MD in 2009, after the hospital, following up on a patient complaint, determined that some of Midei's patients may have received stents they didn't need. The hospital subsequently sent letters to 585 of Midei's patients, as well as their primary-care physicians and cardiologists, informing them that patients may have received stents not supported by their angiograms.

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