Oregon Health Forum, September 1999
http://www.healthforum.org/jan99.html


OHSU faces 'whistleblower' suit

Former surgical resident says the Oregon Health Sciences University
kicked him out for raising awkward questions. In a federal wrongful
termination suit filed against OHSU last fall, David Ostad, MD, 
claimed he was dropped from the University's plastic surgery
program because he voiced concerns about his boss's billing
practices. Ostad's suit does not assert that billing practices
actually were illegal or fraudulent, but the issue remains a
sensitive one for the University, coming as it does on the heels of
a federal probe into Medicare billing practices at academic
hospitals.