TeamHealth, a physician staffing firm, agreed to pay physicians millions to settle a lawsuit over unpaid bonuses in early February.
The physicians filed a lawsuit against TeamHealth and its subsidiary Paragon Contracting Services in 2017, alleging the company shorted its emergency physicians on bonus pay tied to relative value units guaranteed by contract. The lawsuit also alleges TeamHealth and Paragon paid nurse practitioners and physician assistants to provide services instead.
TeamHealth and Paragon agreed to pay $15 million into a qualified settlement fund for emergency room physicians affected by the companies' actions, according to a settlement filed Feb. 11.