Links tagged “Ethics”
- A Lesson Learned: Don’t manipulate sales data to make your company look better
- Medtronic wins temporary reprieve in ex-rep’s whistleblower suit
- Surgeon who used Norian for treatment of a vertebral compression fracture is exonerated by jury 9 years later
- The Top 5 Most Overused Procedures in Orthopedics
- Medtronic Spine paid 6 surgeons over $1M in royalties last year
- Neurosurgeon pleads guilty to $11M fraud for unneeded surgeries
- Spanish Orthopedics scandal results in 6,000 patients under observation with faulty implants
- NuVasive to pay $13.8M to settle DOJ matter
- Top 5 Orthopedic procedures that are financial conflicts of interest
- Feds are going after spine surgeons in S Dakota for unnecessary surgeries
- Biomet bribery probe may stall Zimmer Merger
- DOJ goes after a spine surgeon and distributor for inducements
- Ouch! Former Integra LifeSciences employees admit to hospital fraud scheme
- Jury convicts former Arthrocare CEO and CFO
- 98 year old gets new Total Knee, begs the question – How old is too old for a Joint Replacement?
- Whistleblowers collect big in 2013 – Orthopedics is the “top” Stark judgement
- Independent review finds “no intentional bias” in Medtronic Spine BMP studies
- Orthopedic Surgeons are bracing for full disclosure of industry payments
- Greek prosecutors bring corruption charges over state hospital deals with DePuy
- Orthofix to pay $43M to resolve Bone Growth Stimulator Investigation
- Former CEO of the Hospital for Special Surgery charged with taking Vendor Kickbacks
- Physician’s Assistant sentenced for accepting kickbacks from Orthofix for ordering bone growth stimulators for 7 years
- Stryker CEO, Steve Macmillan, had asked Board for approval to date employee
- Former Kyphon Marketing Manager sentenced to 45 months jail time for operating fake supply company
- Biomet Pays $22M Fine to the Feds in a Medical Device Bribery Settlement involving Argentina, Brazil and China
- FDA fines Globus Medical and CEO $1M for selling “rejected” bone graft products
- Stryker Biotech Has Dodged all OP-1 Prosecutions Except One – Mark Phillips, the former president
- Stryker pays $15M fine in a DOJ Settlement after Unapproved OP-1 Clinical Study
- Senators Ask Medtronic about their Post-Market Device Tracking regarding Infuse
- Exactech extends Deferred Prosecution Agreement with US Attorneys Office
- Yale Review of Infuse Study to Begin – “Does Infuse work? and Is Infuse safe?”
- Million-dollar payments to Orthopedic surgeons raise questions
- “The Spine Journal” is accused of methodological errors and bias by “Orthopedics This Week”
- Former Marketing Manager at Kyphon pleads guilty to federal fraud charges
- 2 former ArthroCare executives are fined by SEC for an earnings ‘scheme’
- 5 Senators start investigation into the legality of physician-owned distributorships (PODs)
- Wright Medical CEO Gary Henley abruptly resigns
- What role did Surgeon Fees play in success of Medtronic’s Infuse?
- Synthes to pay $23M fine and divest the Norian business… next comes executive sentencings
- New study finds that many highly paid Med Device consultants fail to reveal their financial connections in journal articles
- Orthopedic Surgeon whistleblower at Rush University Medical Center exposes Medicare fraud
- Wright Medical’s ethics are questioned after a major league umpire patient experiences a failed ceramic hip (caution: very one-sided Bloomberg article)
- Former J&J Depuy Executive Charged With Bribery
- FDA questions role of payments in Zimmer Dynesys study
- The Kuklo saga comes full circle – Panel finds shortcomings in bone study but no falsified data
- FDA: Menaflex Clearance Shows “Definite Threats” to the 510(k) Process
- Whoops…internal leak at Medtronic suggests there is a profit goal in funding surgeon training in Australia
- Dr. Timothy Kuklo resigns from Washington University after accused by U.S. Army officials of falsifying data in a clinical study
- Dr. Jeffrey Wang removed from leadership position at UCLA Spine Center for failing to disclose that he was paid by Medtronic, Paradigm, FzioMed, Facet Solutions, and DePuy Spine
- Kuklo Investigations Grow – the former Army orthopedic surgeon and lawyer accused by the Army of falsifying medical research about Medtronic's InFuse bone growth product
- List of the largest industry payments to orthopedists
- POD Spine Surgeon Sabit Gets 20 Years in Prison
- 12 US Hospitals paid the government $28M for abusing kyphoplasty stays
- Former CEO of OtisMed sentenced to prison for commercializing products not cleared by FDA
- BMJ starts campaign to reduce knee arthroscopy procedures
- Thousands of patients have received counterfeit spine implants nationwide
- Synthes president in trouble after fight at church
- NuVasive CEO resigns after probe finds policy violations
- Biomet’s bribery charges gets in the way of the Zimmer-Biomet acquisition
- Mimedx receives subpoena from Office of Inspector General, HHS
- What we did and did not learn at AdvaMed 2014
- Ex-ArthroCare executives get 10 and 20 year prison sentences
- SEC subpoenas Biomet regarding operations in Brazil and Mexico
- Arthrocare finally gets some relief from its sales fraud nightmare
- ArthoCare makes deal with DOJ – enters into 2 year deferred prosecution agreement
- 4 Inside Traders from the Stryker/Orthovita acquision will be sentenced
- FDA preparing for the hacking of Medical Devices
- Former ArthroCare CEO and CFO surrender to officers after fraud charges
- TranS1 Spine will settle fraudulent coding case for $6M
- Wright Medical becomes the last Ortho company to weather the Deferred Prosecution Agreement
- 2 Former Arthrocare Execs Charged With $400M Fraud
- OrthoFix pays an additional $34M to Settle False Claims Allegations with its Bone Growth Stimulators
- The DOJ has finally closed the 4-Year investigation of off-label promotions of Medtronics Infuse
- Biomet Pays Feds to enter into DPA for Bribery Charges in Argentina, Brazil and China
- Anti-kickback Charges Against Exactech Dropped
- Smith & Nephew to pay $22M to the DOJ in Greek bribery case
- Sales Reps from Stryker Biotech escape Federal charges in Off-label Marketing Lawsuit
- Medtronic paid millions to influential University of Wisconsin-Madison chairman
- 4 Former Synthes Executives Sentenced to Prison Time for Unapproved Bone Cement study
- ArthroCare To Settle Class Action Suits For $74M
- DFine to pay $2.39M fine to DOJ after whistleblower reports surgeon kickbacks
- Infuse lawsuit: Judge orders Medtronic to produce safety data on bone growth protein
- Wright Medical’s Compliance Officer resigns before the conclusion of the deferred prosecution agreement
- Wright Medical publishes a new code of business conduct
- Senators Investigating Medtronic for links between Surgeons consulting fees and Infuse usage
- 3 Spine Surgeons are publicly disciplined in New Jersey for not disclosing financial interests in with Synthes
- Senators are attacking Medtronic regarding use of Hydrosorb at Walter Reed
- Norton Hospital in Louisville defends the use of Medtronic products that are questioned in the WSJ
- Wright Medical to pay Feds $7.9M concluding 3 years of investigation
- Feds are now investigating JNJ, Medtronic and Zimmer for sales outside the US
- Doctor vs. device manufacturer: A case study in what not to do
- AAOS, NASS is now targeted by Senator Charles Grassley
- Finally… Arthrocare files overdue financial statements
- Stryker Biotech employees indicted for wire fraud, conspiracy to defraud FDA, distribution of a misbranded device and false statements to FDA
- Six Hospitals Pay $8.3 Million in Medicare Spine Surgery Whistleblower Case
- Body snatchers accusation from Germany for tissue sold in US – RTI Biologics is involved
- Dr. David Polly resigns from AAOS Board – Medtronic consulting issues have become an unnecessary distraction
- Spine Surgeon Didn't Disclose Medtronic Pay in Testimony
- Synthes Executives plead guilty in connection with illegal clinical trials of Norian bone cement on patients
- The CEOs of the big five orthopedic makers say their interactions with doctors are both transparent and necessary
