Joan Rivers suffered a fatal brain injury due to lack of oxygen back in August when she was undergoing a throat-scope procedure at Manhattan’s Yorkville Endoscopy clinic.
U.S. officials have decided that the clinic will lose federal funding starting Jan. 31 because The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) claims that for a facility that provides outpatient surgical care, it no longer meets the conditions for coverage, according to NBC News.
Investigators at the New York Department of Health and Human Services previously determined that Rivers’ death was due to the fact that clinic staff “failed to identify deteriorating vital signs and provide timely intervention.”
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The clinic’s publicist Marcia Horowitz responded in a release Monday: “We are continuing to work with all regulatory bodies. We intend to communicate with CMS and appropriate authorities to have the decision reversed. Yorkville continues to be a licensed facility and perform procedures while cooperating with the regulatory process.”
This comes after the medical director for the clinic was fired following Rivers’ death.
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