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May 4, 2021 | 12:33 PM
Neurosurgeon Dr. Wilson Asfora of Sioux Falls and two medical device distributorships that he owns, Medical Designs LLC and Sicage LLC, have agreed to pay $4.4 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations relating to illegal payments to Asfora to induce the use of certain medical devices, in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute, as well as claims for medically unnecessary surgeries.
Medical Designs and Sicage agreed to pay an additional $100,000 in penalties to settle allegations that they violated the Open Payments Program by failing to report to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Asfora’s ownership interests and payments made to Asfora.
Dr. Wilson Asfora and two affiliated companies agree to pay $4.4 million to settle healthcare fraud allegations By Todd Epp
May 3, 2021 9:42 AM
WASHINGTON – Neurosurgeon Wilson Asfora, M.D. of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and two medical device distributorships that he owns, Medical Designs LLC and Sicage LLC, have agreed to pay $4.4 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations relating to illegal payments to Asfora to induce the use of certain medical devices, in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute, as well as claims for medically unnecessary surgeries.
Medical Designs and Sicage agreed to pay an additional $100,000 in penalties to settle allegations that they violated the Open Payments Program by failing to report to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Asfora’s ownership interests and payments made to Asfora.
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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.