WORCESTER – A Worcester urologist who mistakenly removed a kidney from the wrong patient received a reprimand from the state last month.

Dr. Ankur M. Parikh, 37, received the reprimand from the Board of Registration in Medicine on Dec. 20 after admitting to the error in a consent order.

Dr. Parikh, a member of Wayne B. Glazier MD PC Urology at 85 Prescott St., has privileges at UMass Memorial Medical Center, Marlborough Hospital and St. Vincent Hospital, according to state documents.

In 2016, Dr. Parikh removed a healthy kidney from Albert Hubbard Jr., a 65-year-old Worcester man, after mistakenly reading the CT scan of another man with the same name.

Both men had received the exact same CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis on the exact same day, July 8, 2016.

After Mr. Hubbard, who’d been complaining of blood in his urine, told Dr. Parikh what day he’d been scanned, the doctor logged in to UMass Memorial’s records system and pulled up the scan by entering Mr. Hubbard’s first name and last name.

Dr. Parikh informed Mr. Hubbard – listed as “Patient A” in the consent order - that he had a large tumor on his kidney that needed to be removed.

He removed the kidney 12 days later at St. Vincent Hospital, the consent order states, and informed Mr. Hubbard of his mistake after a pathologist found the kidney to be healthy.

The state cataloged three mistakes on Dr. Parikh’s part that it said fell below the standard of care. In addition to the initial error made by not verifying the patient’s date of birth before viewing his scan, Dr. Parikh failed to review the CT scan the day of surgery, it said, and still elected to remove the kidney despite observing that it wasn’t as heavy as one would expect given the tumor’s size.

According to the consent order, Mr. Hubbard was an “add on” patient to Dr. Parikh’s schedule for his initial visit, which resulted in the doctor not reviewing his referral or records at the start of the day.

Dr. Parikh attempted to log in to UMass Memorial's medical records system the day of the surgery, the order noted, but was unable to “due to problems with a recently installed firewall.”

The board noted that Dr. Parikh performed the surgery despite not being able to access the scan, even after noticing the kidney seemed light.

Mr. Hubbard has a lawsuit pending against Dr. Parikh, St. Vincent, UMass Memorial Medical Group, Wayne Glazier P.C. and multiple other involved medical staff.

Mr. Hubbard's lawyer, Jeffrey S. Raphaelson, said Tuesday that the sides are still in discovery, meaning gathering information, for the lawsuit.

Mr. Raphaelson said it’s his understanding that the reprimand Dr. Parikh received is “fairly standard” for someone who wrongly removed an organ with no previous infractions.

Dr. Parikh is required to provide a copy of the consent agreement, which is online, to any facility at which he practices medicine. The existence of the reprimand and the consent order, with no description and no details, is noted on his online profile on website of the state Board of Registration in Medicine.

Mr. Raphaelson said the institutions named in the suit “continue to deny responsibility for what happened,” and that his client wants to ensure nothing like this happens to anyone else.

“In our view, this was a systemic problem,” Mr. Raphaelson said, involving breakdowns in safety protections on multiple levels.

Spokespeople for St. Vincent and UMass Memorial didn’t immediately respond to an email sent Tuesday afternoon seeking comment.