She says raising the pay gap led to a threat to cut her duties
A veteran Ohio physician says she was paid far less per unit of work than a junior male colleague - and says complaining backfired.
That is the core of a lawsuit filed on July 16, 2026 in federal court in the Northern District of Ohio against Bon Secours Mercy Health and several affiliated entities, along with a hospital executive named as an individual defendant.
The plaintiff, a physical medicine and rehabilitation doctor, has worked at Mercy Health Lorain Hospital since 1997 and has served as a medical director there since 1999, according to the complaint. The filing says that around 2017 or 2018 the health system switched to a productivity-based pay model built on Relative Value Units, or RVUs - a common measure that puts a dollar value on each service a doctor performs. Under that model, physicians earn a set dollar amount per RVU, known as a conversion factor.
The alleged gap sits in those conversion factors. From March 2020 through December 2023, the complaint says, the physician earned $42.50 per RVU while a male colleague in her department - one with less experience and less seniority - earned $62, a difference of $19.50 for the same or substantially equal work. The filing says the gap held in 2024, at $45 against $62, and continued in 2025, at $39.50 against $57. It also alleges that when rates were trimmed in January 2025 after Medicare reimbursement changes, her rate fell about 12% while her...
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