Officials Say Medicare Official Reassigned

[SillyGoose]

By KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - A high-ranking Medicare officer, whose medical license was suspended because he falsified documents concerning his continuing education, was reassigned to another government agency, officials said Tuesday.

The confirmation of the reassignment of Sean R. Tunis came one day after the inspector general for the Health and Human Services Department released an updated list of people and businesses excluded from doing business with federal health care programs. Tunis was on the list.

Tunis, who was the chief medical officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, helped determine what services and medical devices Medicare would reimburse. He had been placed on paid administrative leave in April.

Tunis' medical license was suspended last May for at least a year by the Maryland Board of Physicians. The board's Web site states that it found the physician guilty of unprofessional conduct in the practice of medicine and of willfully making or filing a false report in the practice of medicine.

(more at link)http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050920/ap_on_go_ot/medicare_official_reassigned

[stillcool]

1. re-assigned?

not promoted? no medal? boy, he must be pissed.

[ShockediSay]

4. Maybe they'll promote him in FEMA; lots of room at the top n/t

[rox63]

2. If you or I were found by our employers to have lied on our resumes

We'd be fired so fast our heads would spin. Is anyone in *'s administration actually qualified for their jobs?

[shanti]

5. shoot

this is SOP in the government, federal, state, and otherwise!

[WhiteTara]

3. this is the face of cronyism

none of these clowns can do a single thing, but they are just such good friends that they will help each other strip our country bare of ALL the resources. Oh my blood pressure is up again.
IMPEACH BUSH AND SEND THEM ALL TO THE HAGUE!

edited for typo

[Judi Lynn]

9. B-b-b-b-but that isn't what they said about Bush during his campaign.

They got out ahead of him, telling the country he was such a proficient bidness man he would make sure he surrounded himself with the greatest collection of skilled experts the world has ever known!

Surely they weren't LYING!

[Sgent]

6. That's just sad

Most physicians have more CEU's than they ever need for lincense renewal -- usually 20 hours/yr. Professional societies and boards require 2-5 times that per year.

There are numerous ways to get it -- online, etc. The CMO of CMS has no business doing this if he can't even pick up the small amount of CEU's required for license renewal.

[MaineDem]

7. Kick

The Administration That Couldn't Shoot Straight strikes again.

[leftchick]

8. uh, shouldn't he be in JAIL????

fuck this is infuriating! :grr:

[WhiteTara]

10. no,no,no! He is in line

for a Medal! Silly girl, jail is for peons...you know for those Bush Haters. :grr: