Minnesota devicemakers paid out $211 million to doctors, hospitals in 2014 (StarTribune)
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The Medtronic operational headquarters in Fridley. Federal data released Tuesday detail payments by Medtronic and other companies to doctors and hospitals in 2014.
A handful of physicians received big paydays from Minnesota medical device companies last year, new federal data show.
A review of payments of $1 million or more shows that eight doctors across the country collected a combined $81 million from Medtronic PLC and St. Jude Medical. All told, Minnesota companies paid out more than $211 million to doctors and hospitals in payments not related to research last year, according to the federal Open Payments database for 2014 that was published Tuesday.
The single largest payment by a Minnesota health care company last year went to Georgia cardiologist Sanjay S. Yadav, who was founder and CEO of a company acquired by Little Canada-based St. Jude. Yadav was paid $15.4 million as part of the acquisition of the company, CardioMEMS.
Tuesday marked the second annual release of data from the federal Centers for Medicare and Me...
