OS X partition corrupted after bootcamp use

Starting with OS 10.10 and Windows 8.1, whenever I use Windows 8.1 for a variable amount of time, the OS X partition becomes corrupted.  Sometimes it is okay, but more often then not, when I leave bootcamp and boot back to OS X, the OS X partition won't boot.  Using Disk Utility (via Cmd-R) shows that the OS X partition is damaged and cannot be repaired.  I then have to format the partition and restore from a Time Machine backup.
The system is a MacBook Pro 10,1 (Retina Mid 2012).  There are no bizarre NTFS utilities installed, only a stock Windows 8.1 OS and OS X 10.10.2.  There are a handful of apps installed under Windows - AutoCAD, etc., but again, no file
Any suggestions?
Per LonerT, I am posting the output from diskutil.
MacBook:~ microdev$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *751.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            500.4 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data Boot Camp               250.0 GB   disk0s4
MacBook:~ microdev$ diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
MacBook:~ microdev$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
Password:
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=751277983744; sectorsize=512; blocks=1467339812
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1467339811
       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6        
          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640        4056        
      413696   977375456      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   977789152     1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   979058688   488280064      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  1467338752        1027        
  1467339779          32         Sec GPT table
  1467339811           1         Sec GPT header
MacBook:~ microdev$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 91337/255/63 [1467339812 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [    413696 -  977375456] HFS+       
3: AB 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 977789152 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 979058688 -  488280064] HPFS/QNX/AUX
MacBook:~ microdev$

Apple Hardware test result:
No problems found.
GDISK output:
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10
Partition table scan:
  MBR: hybrid
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present
Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.
Disk 0:: 1467339812 sectors, 699.7 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 000000D5-2857-0000-3E39-0000720B0000
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1467339778
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 5089 sectors (2.5 MiB)
Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size      Code  Name
  1              40          409639  200.0 MiB  EF00  EFI system partition
  2          413696      977789151  466.0 GiB  AF00  Macintosh HD
  3      977789152      979058687  619.9 MiB  AB00  Recovery HD
  4      979058688      1467338751  232.8 GiB  0700  BOOTCAMP
Everything appears to be normal.  I have no idea why this happens on this machine.  My only other thought is that this machine was upgraded from 10.9.  My last option is to wipe the machine, install 10.10 from scratch, then reinstall everything again.  I dread this last option - it is usually the sign of a desperate individual (which I am).

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