PHOENIX — A Phoenix‑based surgery center has agreed to pay $5.6 million to settle a Department of Justice complaint alleging it paid local doctors to steer patients to their clinic.
Southwest Orthopedic and Spine Hospital LLC, which operates as OASIS Hospital, agreed to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act, according to a settlement released Tuesday, Feb. 24.
Federal investigators said that between 2011 and 2018, OASIS made improper payments to Southwest Orthopedic and Spine Hospital Physicians Group. OASIS allegedly paid the doctors by giving them bonds and then paying them interest on those bonds…