December 8, 2021
The owner and medical director of Georgia’s
Milton Hall Surgical Associates,
Jeffrey M. Gallups, will pay
$3 million, and medical device manufacturer
Entellus Medical will pay
$1.2 million, to resolve claims that they entered into an unlawful kickback arrangement. The government alleged that Gallups received cash payments and all-expense paid trips from Entellus in return for directing MHSA physicians to utilize sinuplasty related medical devices exclusively from Entellus and increase the number of sinuplasty procedures performed. In addition, Gallups was alleged to have received “commissions” from medical testing laboratory NextHealth, in exchange for directing MHSA doctors to order medically unnecessary toxicology and genetic tests from NextHealth. The settlement resolves a qui tam action initiated by former MHSA physician
Myron Jones, M.D., who will receive approximately
$614,000 from the settlement.
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