Nassau University Medical Center's newly configured board of directors has launched an investigatory review of surgical cases at the East Meadow hospital performed by doctors from Total Orthopedics & Sports Medicine and plans to reduce the company's outsized role in its orthopedics department, officials tell Newsday.

The review comes as NUMC confirmed that Dr. Vadim Lerman, who previously served as the hospital's associate director of orthopedic spinal surgery — a title he also holds at Total Orthopedics — has not held medical staff privileges allowing him to treat patients there since June 19.

The State Workers' Compensation Board has accused Lerman of performing medically questionable procedures without justification and rejected an application that would allow him to continue seeking

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