Steward Health Care System—a Dallas-based private for-profit healthcare network with over $180 million in revenue—has agreed to pay over $4 million to resolve allegations of fraud.
Steward and some of its affiliates have agreed to pay $4.7 million to settle a lawsuit claiming that relationships it had with several physicians and physician practice groups violated federal law, including the False Claims Act, which makes it a crime for a person or organization to knowingly make a false record or file a false claim relating to a federal healthcare program.
Steward is one of the largest, private for-profit healthcare networks in the U.S. and owns several hospitals in Massachusetts, including the for-profit hospital Good Samaritan Medical Center. The settlement agreement states that in 2011 Good Samaritan Medical Center entered into an agreement with Brockton Urology Clinic in which Brockton would administer prostate cancer centers of excellence at Good Samaritan Medical Center. However, Good Samaritan Medical Center has admitted that since January of 2012, they had no such centers of excellence. It is alleged that from April 2011 through December 2017 Good Samaritan Medical Center paid Brockton Urology pursuant to the agreement and Brockton Urology referred patients to Good Samaritan Medical Center.
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