Three Texas medical institutions have agreed to a $15 million settlement following a federal investigation into whistleblower claims that three heart surgeons were running multiple operating rooms simultaneously and delegating complex surgical duties to “unqualified medical residents.”
The whistleblower alleged Drs. Joseph Coselli, David Ott, and Joseph Lamelas left “unqualified medical residents” to perform thousands of complex heart surgeries between 2013 and 2020 at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center (BSLMC) in Houston without the patients’ knowledge, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas on June 24.
