Here are three recent updates on physician lawsuits against former employers that Becker’s has reported on over the past month:
1. Parijat Joy, MD, has sued the University of Iowa and its board of regents over claims of alleged discrimination. Dr. Joy began working with the university in 2018 as a part of its cardiovascular disease fellowship. He then trained for several years as an associate physician at the University of Iowa Hospitals in Iowa City. Later he was promoted to assistant clinical professor in the university’s internal medicine department.
2. Norman Wang, MD, has lost a lawsuit he filed against the University of Pittsburgh, UPMC, three physicians and a physicians’ group. District Judge Marilyn Horan found that Dr. Wang failed to prove his claims of discrimination against the university and health system in the case that began in December 2020. The lawsuit sought monetary damages for economic and emotional harm and alleged that Dr. Wang was targeted by his supervisors, the university and the hospital system after publishing an article about diversity, inclusion and equity in cardiology in the Journal of the American Heart Association in March 2020.
3. A federal appeals court has ruled that a fired physician cannot resurrect his False Claims Act lawsuit accusing his former employer — Baptist Health Montgomery, Prattville Baptist and Team Health — of billing the government for overprescribed opioids. Jeffery Milner, MD, claimed in his lawsuit that, while working at the hospital in Prattville, Ala., from 2014 to 2017, physicians were pressured to overprescribe opioids, which led to fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid billing. Dr. Milner alleged that ER doctors who didn’t comply with these opioid-related practices faced retaliation, and he was explicitly told to “keep the drug addicts and administration happy.” He further alleged that he was fired in December 2017 for raising concerns about these practices.
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