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Settling all scores ... UHHS to pay $14 million in kickback lawsuit.

Publication: Modern Healthcare
Publication Date: 28-AUG-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Settling all scores ... UHHS to pay $14 million in kickback lawsuit.(The Week In Healthcare)(University Hospitals Health System v. Thomas Kirby)(whistle blowing case)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Mark Taylor

Hell hath no fury like a physician scorned by a hospital. A long-standing dispute between a physician and University Hospitals Health System resulted in the seven-hospital system based in Cleveland agreeing to pay nearly $14 million to resolve a civil whistle-blower lawsuit filed by the physician.

Thomas Kirby, the former co-chairman of the system's cardiothoracic surgery department, alleged that the system...

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