05-04-2006, 08:14 AM
So much for hiring standards at UC. A coach gets booted for a DUI, but you can defraud insurance companies and UC will hire you! Looks Nancy has the hiring of unlicensed professionals down pat.
UC hires doctor who lost license to practice
BY PEGGY O?FARRELL | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER
A psychiatrist is working at the University of Cincinnati after losing his medical license in Arkansas because of a 2004 insurance fraud conviction.
Dr. James ?Kurt? Dilday is working under a fellowship in UC?s Department of Psychiatry and at University Hospital, which is affiliated with the university. UC?s staff directory lists him as a clinical instructor.
Bill Trice, an attorney for the Arkansas State Medical Board, called Dilday ?a piece of work."
"Glad y?all got him and not us,? Trice said today.
Dilday billed insurance companies for surgeries even though he is a psychiatrist and not a surgeon.
Dilday was issued a training certificate by the Medical Board of Ohio in October.
The certificate is ?much more restrictive? than a full medical license, said Joan Wehrle, chief of executive staff for the Ohio medical board.
Under the certificate, Dilday cannot open a private practice and must work under the supervision and regulations outlined under the UC fellowship.
UC officials were not available to outline what those conditions are.
Dilday could not be reached for comment through the university; his phone number is not listed.
The Ohio medical board does not conduct criminal background checks on license applicants, Wehrle said, but the issue is ?under discussion.?
It was unclear whether UC or University Hospital conducted background checks on Dilday before hiring him.
Arkansas has conducted background checks on new license applicants for about the last year, Trice said.
Patty Thelen, a hospital spokeswoman, referred the question to UC officials for comment.
In 2004, Dilday?s medical practice, Biological Psychiatry Associates, pleaded no contest to 30 counts of insurance fraud.
Trice said Dilday billed insurance companies, including Medicaid for services, including heart and brain surgeries, that he never performed.
He paid full restitution of more than $130,000 and a fine.
UC hires doctor who lost license to practice
BY PEGGY O?FARRELL | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER
A psychiatrist is working at the University of Cincinnati after losing his medical license in Arkansas because of a 2004 insurance fraud conviction.
Dr. James ?Kurt? Dilday is working under a fellowship in UC?s Department of Psychiatry and at University Hospital, which is affiliated with the university. UC?s staff directory lists him as a clinical instructor.
Bill Trice, an attorney for the Arkansas State Medical Board, called Dilday ?a piece of work."
"Glad y?all got him and not us,? Trice said today.
Dilday billed insurance companies for surgeries even though he is a psychiatrist and not a surgeon.
Dilday was issued a training certificate by the Medical Board of Ohio in October.
The certificate is ?much more restrictive? than a full medical license, said Joan Wehrle, chief of executive staff for the Ohio medical board.
Under the certificate, Dilday cannot open a private practice and must work under the supervision and regulations outlined under the UC fellowship.
UC officials were not available to outline what those conditions are.
Dilday could not be reached for comment through the university; his phone number is not listed.
The Ohio medical board does not conduct criminal background checks on license applicants, Wehrle said, but the issue is ?under discussion.?
It was unclear whether UC or University Hospital conducted background checks on Dilday before hiring him.
Arkansas has conducted background checks on new license applicants for about the last year, Trice said.
Patty Thelen, a hospital spokeswoman, referred the question to UC officials for comment.
In 2004, Dilday?s medical practice, Biological Psychiatry Associates, pleaded no contest to 30 counts of insurance fraud.
Trice said Dilday billed insurance companies, including Medicaid for services, including heart and brain surgeries, that he never performed.
He paid full restitution of more than $130,000 and a fine.