A medical device manufacturer and two top executives agreed to pay a total of $12 million to settle allegations originally brought by a whistleblower that they paid kickbacks to physicians.
Innovasis; Brent Felix, president and founder of the company; and Garth Felix, chief financial officer, violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to spine surgeons to induce them to use Innovasis’s spinal devices, the Department of Justice (DOJ) alleged in a settlement agreement published Wednesday.
