Complications From Heart Stents: How Many Stents is Too Many?

When you select a doctor, you expect the doctor will provide trustworthy medical care and sound recommendations. If a physician recommends a procedure or treatment and you trust them, you are likely to follow their orders, believing that the treatment is being recommended to enhance your health.

As reports from US News & World Report and The New York Times illustrate, however, a doctor’s recommendations are not always in the best interest of the patient. The publications report that in recent years there have been several doctors — some of which have practiced in small, rural communities — who have been or who are being investigated by the federal government for allegedly performing unnecessary procedures on patients to obtain payment from Medicaid.