Edgewater Medical Center

Edgewater Hospital was founded in 1929 and most of the current buildings were constructions in the '40's - '60's. It's famous as the birthplace of both John Wayne Gacy and Hillary Rodham Clinton. In 2001, the hospital abruptly closed its doors permanently when its management and many of its doctors were found guilty of committing Medicare fraud. Among the crimes:

Dr. Andrew Cubria, a cardiologist, admitted performing unnecessary angioplasties and heart catheterizations on more than 750 patients, including two who died as a result of the unnecessary procedures. Dr. Cubria was sentenced to 151 months in prison and ordered to pay $14,362,499 in restitution.

Dr. Kumar Kaliana admitted receiving kickbacks in return for admitting patients to Edgewater and arranging cash payments to family members and others who recruited patients who did not need hospitalization. Dr. Kumar was sentenced to 16 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $1,156,000.

Dr. Ravi Barnabas admitted to funneling kickback payments to Drs. Rao and Kumar in exchange for admitting patients to Edgewater. Dr. Barnabas was sentenced to 52 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $100,000.

Roger Ehmen, Edgewater vice president, admitted his participation in schemes to pay kickbacks to recruit and hospitalize patients unnecessarily. Ehmen was sentenced to 78 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $5 million.

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items are from between Dec 2007 & 12 Aug 2008.