Pittsburgh, PA (May 20, 2020) -- The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal by UPMC in a whistleblower lawsuit against the Pittsburgh health system and 13 neurosurgeons that alleged sometimes unnecessary and overly complex surgeries were performed starting in 2006 to pump up physician salaries and hospital revenue. UPMC lawyers had argued that performance-based compensation was a common practice and that the allegations of irregularity were based on an “ambiguous r