The Surgery Center will liquidate after a sudden closing, process of $ 1 million

An outpatient surgery center that angered patients when closed in August submitted for bankruptcy in front of a $ 1 million fraud process and a future summer process.

The Urology Center in Colorado, known as TUCC, deposited for chapter 7 on February 13th. Chapter 7 The bankruptcy requires a company to cease operations and liquidate its assets.

TUCC took the first step last summer, which caused some patients to complain about YELP.

“My programming has been canceled without warning,” a patient has long written. Another said, “We asked ourselves why the doctors continued to leave; Now we know why. Terrible.”

Former TUCC administrator Luke Hopps did not respond to applications for closing comments. An announcement on the web site of the Surgery Center, which worked most recently at 2777 mile High Stadium Circle in Denver, does not offer an explanation for prison.

“After 18 years of service dedicated to the Denver community, we announce the closure (TUCC). It was really a privilege to take care of yourself and your families, ”he says.

Two weeks before depositing bankruptcy, TUCC and his former CEO, John Tillett, were sued by Ark Data Centers, an Iowa company that stored the data of the TUCC patient. This process requires $ 1 million in unpaid invoices, but it also accuses the company and Tillett of hope and fraud.

Ark says he informed TUCC last summer about an unpaid bill of $ 310,000. TUCC responded by threatening to request criminal charges against ARK if the data company would reduce access to patient data, claiming that it would be a violation of HIPAA, the federal law on confidentiality.

“TUCC has made these threats, even though it has not been able to pay for data storage in the last ten months,” according to the trial, which accuses TUCC of “arming HIPAA laws to try to force Ark to provide services to the defendants.”

Until August, when patients were complaining online, ARK says he began to wonder if TUC was still working. Therefore, he asked Tillett, who is also a doctor, to certify under the penalty that TUC “provides treatment for patients”. He did it, he says.

For this, Ark sue Tillett for fraud and TUC for violation of the contract. Look for $ 1.03 million plus lawyer taxes. TUCC and Tillett have not yet responded to the trial in court.

TUCC is also sent to court by a medical billing company and an office supply company, which said in December that it is owed $ 150,000. TUCC did not respond to them either.

Meanwhile, a four-day jury trial is set for July in the center of Denver, in the case of Thomas Pugh, a doctor from Greenwood Village, who has previously co-owned TUCC, according to bankruptcy files. Pgh claims that he owes nearly $ 200,000 in the back salaries. Tucc challenges that it is.

In his bankruptcy, TUCC reports a debt of about $ 1 million, almost all of them are due to suppliers, including $ 310,000, which he thinks is worth it. TUCC reports assets of $ 3.4 million, almost all of which are the unpaid medical invoices of patients and other accounts to receive, he says.

The company had revenues of $ 38 million in 2022 and an almost identical number in 2023, but annual revenues dropped to only $ 18.5 million, according to bankruptcy records.