William Harwin, MD, former president and managing partner of Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute in Fort Myers, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to allocate oncology treatments for cancer patients in Southwest Florida.
From 1999 to September 2016, Dr. Harwin engaged in a conspiracy to suppress competition by agreeing to allocate chemotherapy treatments for cancer patients to Florida Cancer Specialists and radiation treatments to another oncology company in Lee, Collier and Charlotte Counties, according to court documents.
The court will set a date for sentencing in the coming weeks.
In April 2020, Florida Cancer Specialists was charged for its role in the same conspiracy and entered into a deferred prosecution agreement resolving the charge, under which it admitted to conspiring to allocate chemotherapy and radiation treatments for cancer patients, according to the Justice Department.
The company agreed to pay a $100 million penalty and to cooperate with the antitrust division's ongoing investigation.