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Medical Device Manufacturer Caught Red Handed, Patients Still Lose

posted by on December 13, 2011

Bottom-line: Medtronic pays doctors to recommend defective devices. Once those defective devices hurt the patient that patient cannot sue the manufacturer. Medtronic Inc. agreed to pay the United States $23.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claim Act by using physician payments related to post-market studies and device registries as kickbacks to [...]

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