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5 hours ago A South Dakota neurosurgeon has agreed to pay $4.4 million to settle a False Claims Act suit against him and his two medical device distributors, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in a Monday news release.
A 2016 qui tam action, brought by relators Carl Dustin Bechtold and Bryan Wellman in the District of South Dakota, alleged that Wilson Asfora, owner of Medical Designs LLC and Sicage LLC, used his companies to operate kickback schemes to enrich himself. The United States, which took over as plaintiff in 2019, claimed that Asfora’s companies paid him profit distributions for using Medical Designs’ and Sicage’s devices in his surgeries and, in distributions of other manufacturers’ medical devices, split the profits with Asfora when he employed those manufacturers’ devices in surgeries.
Sioux Falls surgeon and his affiliates to pay over $4 million in Medicare fraud scheme
Dr. Wilson Asfora funneled payments from medical device companies through expensive meals hosted for friends and colleagues at a restaurant owned by the surgeon and his wife. He is accused of performing unnecessary surgeries, defrauding government health care plans of millions. Written By: Christopher Vondracek | ×
PIERRE, S.D. A Sioux Falls, S.D., surgeon and his two companies will pay millions to settle federal prosecutors claims that he wined and dined colleagues at a Brazilian restaurant co-owned with his wife with an elaborate kickback scheme involving medical devices and Medicare fraud.