A Florida plastic surgeon has been banned from performing certain procedures in the state after a patient died. This decision comes months after Florida’s Board of Medicine made an emergency ruling that limited the amount of Brazilian butt lift (BBL) surgeries doctors are allowed to perform in a day.

On Friday, Sept. 9, the board ruled that Dr. John Sampson is banned from performing the procedure in the state, a sanction for the death of a 33-year-old patient identified in an administrative complaint as E.R. after she died on June 16, 2021, the same day he performed the surgery on her.

The procedure is relatively inexpensive, with women paying as little as $3,500 to get the Sampson’s specialized Coke bottle-type figure, also called the “Sampson Doll” or the “Sampson Stallion.”

In addition to the prohibition, Sampson was fined $20,000, charged $5,626 for the investigation and prosecution costs, and is not allowed to be the designated physician for any office surgery center.

The patient at the center of Sampson’s case died after receiving a particular type of BBL that has been illegal in Florida since 2019.

During the procedure, E.R. suffered a punctured liver and intestines and had injections of fat taken from her abdomen and placed in her gluteal muscles, the complaint against him states.

In a complaint against the doctor, Sampson is listed as the facility’s designated physician. As such, he was not supposed to be actually performing surgeries. In this role, he is also the person tapped to fill out paperwork about the surgery and any side effects. Still, he is cited as performing multiple operations between April and June 2021, and seven on June 16, 2021, which includes the one resulting in E.R.’s death.

The Miami Herald reports that despite the fines and the penalties, Sampson has not been relieved of all his duties at the Seduction Cosmetic Surgery in Coral Gables and will be able to keep his medical license, which expires on Jan. 31, 2023.

The company’s website states Sampson is a “board certified surgeon,” contradicting the American Board of Plastic Surgery designation that says his certification is “suspended.”

While this is the first time that Sampson has been sanctioned, the center had another doctor banned from doing BBLs in 2017. Similarly, Osakatukei “Osak” Omulepu lost one of his patients after performing the constructive surgery.