Citizens Medical Center in Victoria to pay $23.5 million to end lawsuit
VICTORIA -- Citizens Medical Center, three cardiologists and the U.S. Attorney General's office agreed to settle a lawsuit Monday, now five years in the making, for $23.55 million.
The county-owned hospital agreed to pay the federal government $21.75 million, of which the U.S. will then pay $5.98 million to the three doctors - Dakshesh-Kumar Parikh, Harish Chandna and Ajay Gaalla.
The hospital agreed to also pay the doctors' attorneys $1.8 million within 10 days.
With the current lawsuit and one settled in 2012, the doctors will have netted almost $14 million from the hospital.
Read more: https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2015/apr/20/citizens-to-pay-235-million-to-end-lawsuit/
[font color=green]The CEO of Citizens recently left the hospital after a no-confidence vote among the physicians practicing at the hospital. The orthopedic surgeons at the hospital threatened to leave if the CEO did not resign.[/font]
