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| The author of many books on women's health: It's Your Body, It's Your Pregnancy; Getting Pregnant; Listen to Your Body; and PMS: Premenstrual Syndrome and You; and hundreds of medical papers, he now languishs in a Federal Prison. There is no question that his charismatic persona helped him to establish a model practice for women's health care. His patients come from all sorts of socioeconomic backgrounds, Liv Ullman, Denise Rich, Foxy Brown and Celine Dion are among the rich and famous that have consulted with Dr. Lauersen. His TV appearances include Phil Donahue, Maury Povich and Geraldo Rivera, who named him "the Dyno Gyno." (Geraldo's wife was a patient of Dr. Lauersen's.) Never turning a patient away, Dr. Lauersen always attempted to help every patient who came to him. Many were patients that had been turned away by other physicians for lack of insurance. As
stated in New York Magazine; Dr. Lauersen needs the public to understand
"I don't date patients, but a lot of my patients are wonderful
and beautiful. " This statement has already been proven false
by his jailhouse marriage as stated in the New
York Times article of May 14, 2006.
Throughout his career Dr. Niels Lauersen has been stalked by as
many as six to ten patients a night on a daily basis. Patients with
medical diagnosis of mental illness coming to his office as late
as 3am ringing the doorbell, calling him at all hours of the night.
Patients alleging rape, or non-consentual sex. Their endgame a FINANCIAL
settlement; they believed he had lots of money. Similiar allegations
of misconduct came from the many hospitals where he had once practiced
medicine, filling the nursery's with newborn babies. Why was Dr.
Lauersen being accused of practicing bad medicine? The third and final cause is because after 1991; the Niels Lauersen, I once knew had become a different person. Whether from professional or private stress, administrative hospital changes, insurance refusal for reimbursements, or patient law suits; Niels Lauersen knew he was in danger of going to prison or risking everything he had worked his entire life for; if he did not correct his professional practices. Interestingly enough, Dr. Lauersen federal investigation for improper billing practices, began at the same time N.Y.U. Medical Center and Blue Cross/Blue Shield were negotiating a Corporate Integrity Agreement with the Inspector General's Office for the United States Department of Health & Human Services for the same allegations against Dr. Lauersen. On the USDOJ website, a 1997 article states the following: " Research Grant Fraud -On April 7, 1997, in the Southern District of New York, New York University Medical Center (NYU Medical Center) agreed to pay $15.5 million to resolve civil liabilities arising from charges that it submitted false information to the government, resulting in the over-recovery of federal funds for indirect costs associated with NYU Medical Center's federally sponsored organized research grants, contracts, and other agreements for the fiscal years 1984 through 1993, and with its indirect cost rate for fiscal years 1994 through 1997. This settlement is unique because it combines a multiple damage recovery under the FCA, with a rate negotiation that typically is handled by the HHS' Division of Cost Allocation for a separate period of time. The qui tam suit was filed in December 1993 by a former NYU Medical Center employee, who will receive $1.5 million of the settlement proceeds. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) often negotiates compliance obligations with health care providers and other entities as part of the settlement of Federal health care program investigations arising under a variety of civil false claims statutes. A provider or entity consents to these obligations as part of the civil settlement and in exchange for the OIG's agreement not to seek an exclusion of that health care provider or entity from participation in Medicare, Medicaid and other Federal health care programs. False claims submitted in violation of the False Claims Act or Civil Monetary Penalties Law give rise to the OIGs permissive exclusion authority under 42 U.S.C.1320a-7(b)(7). Providers who settle these cases often deny that they were liable or that they committed the alleged conduct. Now many of Dr. Lauersen's adversaries did bring their power to bear on a doctor they wanted out of the system. Was Dr. Lauersen left alone on those occassions he was working in the hospital and required support? The answer to this question is Yes. Over the past five years many former patients and victims have contacted me directly. Their personal interviews with me did answer these questions as do the transcripts in the courts throughout New York State. Where the unfortunate deliveries not Dr. Lauersen's fault but the hospital's failure to responsd appropriately? The answer here is that the responsibilty goes to both the doctor and the institution. When Niels Lauersen was first served with a pink slip asking him to resign; a smarter move would have been to go somewhere else to practice medicine. Niels Lauersen believed he could fight city hall and win. Today he now knows that as a result of not keeping with acceptable standards of medical care; he threw it all away. Niels Lauersen did not keep readable medical records for his patients and the resultant effect was that he lost his license to practice medicine forever. Was his resignation from Lenox Hill Hospital a coincidence occurring in the middle of the government settlement and N.Y.U.'s hospital mergers? Or a carefully planned scenario by the New York University Medical Center (NYU Medical Center) to set an example for all those doctors who were to get their pink slips when the merger was complete? Where many of the records seized from Dr. Lauersen's office planted by Dr. Neil Ratner?
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