VISITING doctors are charging public hospitals up to $90 million each year for services they haven't performed

VISITING doctors are charging public hospitals up to $90 million each year for services they haven't performed, the state's auditor-general has found.
Visiting medical officers and staff specialists, including surgeons, who make up more than half the 13,000 doctors working in public hospitals, charge more than $500 million each year for their work in the public system.
Public hospitals pay staff specialists, many of whom also run private practices, from $198,212 to $390,528 each year.
Some hospitals, which checked claims from visiting medical officers thoroughly, found errors in between 10 and 18 per cent of claims. The Audit Office of NSW estimates this rate is replicated across all public hospitals, many of which use ''minimal checks'' to support claims for payment.
The errors include multiple claims for the same patient service and for patients who were not in hospital on the day claimed.

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He was finally deregistered in September 2009, after he failed to pay his fees

Dr Hasil has a chequered history in Australia, including being investigated by Tasmanian police in relation to the unsolved 1995 murder of an Italian tourist, Victoria Cafasso.
The NSW Medical Board had ignored warnings from its Tasmanian counterpart that Dr Hasil lied about being jailed in Singapore in 1995 for domestic violence against his second wife, Rose Doyle, and registered him anyway.
Yesterday, the commission also told the tribunal he failed to notify the NSW Medical Board that he was convicted of high-range drink driving in September 2008.
He was finally deregistered in September 2009, after he failed to pay his fees. He was again convicted of high-range drink driving in October 2009 and has a conviction for assault.

He also sustained a major head injury from a fall in October 2009, which had resulted in a physical or mental impairment likely to affect his ability to practise medicine, Ms McNaughton said.
He failed the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' assessments four times.
Connie Scholl said she had not recovered from the ordeal of allegedly being abused by Dr Hasil in 2002 while stitching her vaginal and anal area after birth, calling her ''horse woman'' after she kicked him in the face in pain.
Her written complaint to the commission alleges that, ''As Dr Hasil was getting up off the ground I heard him say to the midwives, 'stirrup the bitch' … it was also at this time that Dr Hasil said to me, 'you Australian women don't know how to have babies'''.
She alleged he forcefully put his hand on her vagina and said, ''Who is the boss now?''
Ms Scholl complained to Lismore hospital in September 2003, but it failed to act.
Ms Scholl said she was angry that none of the victims had received an apology from the hospital management and no one had been made accountable.

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