Medical group ordered to pay $8M for Medicare fraud to lay off employees, close locations

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Peripheral Vascular Associates, which employs 250 people at several locations, will close at least two offices and lay off at least 30 people.

A"For Lease" sign is seen on a Peripheral Vascular Associates building Sunday on North Main Avenue. The San Antonio medical group is closing locations and laying off staffers — possibly all of them.A San Antonio medical group ordered to pay $8.1 million in damages in a Medicare billing fraud case last year has reported to state regulators that it will lay off 30 workers and close two of its largest locations.

The letter does not state the number of people who are expected to be laid off, but the commission’s spreadsheet listing 2023 layoff notices shows 10 employees at PVA’s Medical Center location and 20 at its downtown location. “PVA remains committed to its patients and employees during this difficult time,” she wrote in an email. “For more information about PVA, please visit ourEstablished in 1975, PVA bills itself as the largest single specialty vascular surgery group in Texas. In recent years, according to its LinkedIn page, the group added prosthetics, wound care, podiatry and, as of 2022, cardiology to its services. It is physician-owned, according to the secretary of state, by 11 of its doctors.

 

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