DES MOINES – A doctor who practices medicine for Mercy Medical Center North Iowa out of St. Ansgar has been charged with an ethics violation.
Kelly D. Ross, M.D., a 58-year-old Iowa-licensed physician who practices family medicine in St. Ansgar, Iowa, entered into a combined Statement of Charges and Settlement Agreement with the Board on March 6, 2014. The Board charged Dr. Ross with violating the laws and rules governing the practice of medicine in Iowa when he failed to provide appropriate pain management to multiple patients in St. Ansgar, Iowa, between 2006 and 2013. Under the terms of the March 6, 2014, combined Statement of Charges and Settlement Agreement, the Board issued Dr. Ross a Citation and Warning and ordered him to pay a $5,000 civil penalty. The Board prohibited Dr. Ross from prescribing, administering or dispensing controlled substances for the treatment of chronic pain and ordered him to complete a Board-approved professional ethics program and medical record keeping course. The Board also placed Dr. Ross on probation for a period of five (5) years subject to Board monitoring, including prescribing audits.
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No matter what mercy does or how it does it it will always be the little little brother of the Mayo clinic.
Must of really got under someones skin
Dr. Ross stood up to Mercy and there business pratices and exposed there treatment of people that worked for them. He resigned but worked it out with Mercy and stayed working for them I exchange for better treatment of employees. A year later this all happens. Looks like he crossed Mercy and he will pay. Mercy does not forget.
Health care is a business.
It’s a Ghetto business run by people who don’t pay any taxes. They use the same business tactics you would find a street drug enforcer using to manage their employees and patients. How many of you people out there have been double billed by Mercy?