Overbilling at women's health care group padded profits while costing patients, doctor says

When seven expectant mothers in Palm Beach County had their babies delivered by midwives at Florida Woman Care, one of the largest female health care operations in the state, the cost should have been at least 20% less than what physicians charge.

Instead, Florida Woman Care documents show, the women were all billed at the higher doctor’s rate, unknowingly becoming part of an alleged billing tactic that Dr. Kenneth Konsker, a founder of the company-turned-whistleblower, says generated millions in higher — and improper — revenues.

Those seven deliveries in 2023 and 2024 represent a small portion of the billing improprieties Konsker said he has identified at Florida Woman Care in which patients were charged for seeing a doctor — care that carries a higher cost — when they actually saw a mi