Unpaid Overtime Wages Lawsuit Filed Against American Oncology Network

Coffman Legal’s employment lawyers have recently filed a collective action lawsuit against American Oncology Partners, P.A. (also known as “American Oncology Network”). This lawsuit argues that American Oncology Network failed to pay all overtime wages owed to its hourly healthcare employees where they earned certain bonuses or additional compensation.

What Are the Claims in the American Oncology Network Overtime Lawsuit?

Our new lawsuit asserts that American Oncology Network paid its hourly healthcare employees certain forms of additional compensation, such as bonuses, but did not include them in its calculations of overtime pay where required by law. As used in the lawsuit, “hourly healthcare employees” may include, but is not limited to, Licensed Practical Nurses (“LPNs”), phlebotomists, Registered Nurses (“RNs”), State Tested Nursing Assistants (“STNAs”), Certified Nursing Assistants (“CNAs”), Certified Medical Assistants (“CMAs”), and other assistants and aides. Similarly, additional forms of compensation that must be included in overtime calculations include but are not limited to shift differentials, training bonuses (such as “preceptor pay”), and retention bonuses. Although American Oncology Network offered these and other bonuses / forms of compensation to its hourly healthcare employees, it did not factor them in when calculating employees’ overtime wages. Instead, American Oncology Network only calculated overtime wages for its hourly healthcare employees based on their hourly wage.

Although it is not currently alleged in the lawsuit, we are also investigating potential other issues that would similarly impact overtime compensation, including but not limited to an issue with meal breaks. Specifically, we have reason to believe that American Oncology Network required a daily meal break deduction from its hourly healthcare employees, but employees’ meal breaks were often missed, interrupted, and/or shortened by employees having to perform substantive job duties. If you believe that you were not receiving full meal breaks and that American Oncology Network was not giving you credit (or compensation) back for them, please contact our overtime attorneys to discuss this potential issue further.

What Can American Oncology Network Employees Receive?

If our attorneys are successful with this overtime case, then employees who participate by joining the case can recover damages pursuant to federal law that governs overtime wages, called the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). The FLSA provides that plaintiffs can seek unpaid overtime damages for up to the last three (3) years, an additional one hundred percent (100%) of their damages as liquidated damages, attorneys’ fees, costs, expenses, and other damages awarded by the Court or as provided in a settlement agreement. This lawsuit was recently filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Eastern Division with the case name Donna Scott v. American Oncology Partners, P.A., Case No. 2:25-cv-261. In order to be eligible to receive any compensation from the case, American Oncology Network workers must join the case.