{"id":548265,"date":"2026-01-28T03:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/548265\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T03:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:22:11","slug":"woman-accused-of-paying-secret-kickbacks-to-surgeons-to-use-medical-devices-at-brisbane-hospital-faces-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/548265\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman accused of paying secret kickbacks to surgeons to use medical devices at Brisbane hospital faces court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A woman accused of being part of a group who defrauded south-east Queensland public hospitals of millions of dollars through an alleged kickbacks scheme has appeared in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Alana Clayton is one of four people who were charged last month, following an <a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-12-18\/queensland-health-criminal-charges-corruption-ombudsmen-probe\/106158696\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/106158696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigation involving the Crime and Corruption Commission<\/a> and the Queensland Office of the Health Ombudsman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 39-year-old, who is listed in court documents as a finance manager, was given a notice to appear in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Wednesday, to face two counts each of fraud and official corruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">In court documents, it is alleged her offending took place between 2016 and 2019.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Exterior shot of the Brisbane Magistrates Court\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3a16d7f2c5845bafba10922ff2f5b423.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">it is alleged Ms Clayton, alongside two other men, corruptly gave two surgeons money in exchange for them using surgical devices. (ABC News: Luke Bowden)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">During this time, it is alleged Ms Clayton, alongside two other men \u2014 including the director of medical supplies company Medivance \u2014 corruptly gave two surgeons money, in exchange for them using surgical devices supplied by Medivance during operations they performed at the Princess Alexandra Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">It is also alleged one of the surgeons was a part-owner of Medivance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The total amount of dishonestly obtained business Ms Clayton and the two others received totalled more than $2.2 million dollars, court documents allege.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The ABC understands the devices used in the surgeries include screws, rods and surgical implants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Earlier this month the two surgeons and the director of Medivance also appeared in court on varying charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">All four had their bail continued and their matters were adjourned to next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman accused of being part of a group who defrauded south-east Queensland public hospitals of millions of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":548266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[240924,4740,31585,4219,107727,820,3584,59601,71434,68609,50,109849],"class_list":{"0":"post-548265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alana-clayton","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-ccc","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-crime-and-corruption-commission","13":"tag-fraud","14":"tag-hospitals","15":"tag-kickbacks","16":"tag-medical-devices","17":"tag-neurosurgery","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-queensland-health"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}