It appears the Medicare database needs a bit of updating. A Vice News and MedPage Today investigation discovered thousands of doctors and other providers were listed to have graduated from schools that have been defunct for about a century. Many professionals are unaware of the phantom schools and may not even know if they are listed as graduates.
“In some cases defunct schools had names similar to the names of active schools, but many were far off the mark. Since all but one of these schools closed between 1864 and 1923, no doctor who graduated from one of them would still be practicing — or alive — today. The outlier closed in 1939.”
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