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IMC blames MMC for alleged forgery
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Posted on Apr 02 2008
The Island Medical Center is accusing the Marianas Medical Clinic of allegedly forging at least 69 medical test requisitions to discredit IMC and to gain business upon the center’s untimely suspension.
Dr. Tony Stearns of MMC has denied this.
In an earlier interview, IMC owner Antony Glad said all private clinics raised their food handler and health examination charges by $10 to $15 the day after his clinic was suspended and cited MMC of conspiring with other clinics to bring him down.
However, in a seven-page order prepared by administrative hearing officer Linn H. Asper, he said that IMC provided no evidence during the administrative hearing to support this allegation.
Stearns had also testified under oath that he has not conspired against IMC.
Asper stated in his report that testimonies given by IMC never made any sense.
“How did MMC obtain all the IMC health screening examination documents that accompanied the forged MTRs? Did MMC forge IMC’s HSEs also, complete with patients’ photograph and Dr. Christine Brown’s stamp and signature? Or did MMC deliberately create two sets of MTRs to set IMC up for a false charge of forging documents? Such elaborate plots seem very unlikely,” stated Asper.
He said that it is much easier to believe that IMC or someone within it had decided to forge MMC’s documents in order to induce the Department of Public Health to release the health certificates that IMC’s patients needed without having to pay MMC for the results.
Dr. Tony Stearns of MCC testified during an administrative hearing that IMC contacted his clinic to perform lab tests on medical samples provided by IMC.
He said his clinic would do it if the tests were either paid or prepaid before the release of the test results to IMC.
Glad mentioned that there was forgery but cannot say for sure who was doing it.
He suspects either his former operations manager Romeo Dolot, who departed Saipan the next day the clinic was called for suspension, or MMC.
