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LOS ANGELES (AP) - A hospital is ending its liver transplant program after officials acknowledged in September that doctors violated national standards by giving an organ to a man who was not among the neediest patients.
Continuing investigations into the 2003 transplant, the challenges of rebuilding the program and competitive pressures led to the decision, St. Vincent Medical Center president and chief executive Gus Valdespino told The Los Angeles Times for a story in Friday's editions.
Valdespino said the federal government dealt the program a potentially crippling blow by withdrawing its certification, making it ineligible to receive Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements for liver transplants.
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