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Details Written by Justice Department Sioux Falls, South Dakota - Neurosurgeon Wilson Asfora, M.D. 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. ....
S.D. Neurosurgeon, 2 Companies Settle Kickback, Fraud Allegations for $4.4M May 4, 2021 A South Dakota-based former Sanford Health neurosurgeon and two medical device distributorships that he owns will pay $4.4 million to settle allegations that they defrauded the federal government through illegal kickback schemes, the U.S. Department of Justice said. The settlement resolves allegations that over the course of nearly a decade, Dr. Wilson Asfora and his distributorships, Medical Designs and Sicage, knowingly and willfully engaged in three kickback schemes to allow Asfora to profit from his use of over a dozen devices in his medical procedures. Federal officials contended in a 2019 lawsuit that Asfora made millions of dollars by performing unnecessary and dangerous surgeries, including one that left a patient partially paralyzed. ....
Pierre, SD, USA / DRGNews 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. ....
Neurosurgeon, 2 companies settle kickback allegations May 3, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) A former Sanford Health neurosurgeon and two medical device distributorships that he owns will pay $4.4 million to settle allegations that they defrauded the federal government through illegal kickback schemes, the U.S. Department of Justice said Monday. The settlement resolves allegations that over the course of nearly a decade, Wilson Asfora and his distributorships, Medical Designs and Sicage, knowingly and willfully engaged in three kickback schemes to allow Asfora to profit from his use of over a dozen devices in his medical procedures. Medical Designs and Sicage also agreed to pay a $100,000 penalty for failing to report Asfora’s ownership interests in the two companies, as required by federal law. ....
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. ....