GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Bon Secours St. Francis Health System has agreed to pay a $36.5 million settlement after being accused of paying exorbitant yearly kickbacks to doctors and defrauding the federal government.
In 2018, an orthopedic surgeon came forward, accusing Bon Secours of using a scheme to pay millions of dollars to surgeons who generated “significant referrals” to the hospital system.
The 54-page lawsuit alleges Bon Secours didn’t want competition from Piedmont Orthopedic Associates, so they “developed a strategy to lure the POA surgeons into becoming employees of the hospital system by paying them excessive compensation, including an annual bonus pool.”
The surgeon who came forward previously worked for Bon Secours as the chief of orthopedics. He said he witnessed surgeons from Piedmont Orthopedic Associates exerting “unusual power” within the healthcare system.
If their practices had a net loss of less than $3.95 million per year, the whistleblower said Bon Secours would pay the physicians a $3.95 million bonus to divide amongst themselves.
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