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Showing posts with label Boston Scientific. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boston Scientific. Show all posts
Friday, October 25, 2013

Justice Delayed - Two Device Companies Still Settling Cases from 10 Plus Years Ago

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Here we go again.  After a hiatus during which the US media and perhaps parts of the government were preoccupied with such issues as the on...
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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Another Month, Another Set of Legal Settlements, Deferred Prosecution Agreements, and Jury Findings Adverse to Large Health Care Corporations

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Another month, another series of adverse legal rulings suggesting misbehavior by large health care organizations.  In alphabetical order,......
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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Guidant (Boston Scientific) Gets Probation

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The latest in the parade of legal settlements by health care corporations involves a new wrinkle.  We have been writing about the case of...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Judge Rejects Prosecutors' Lenient Settlement of the Case of the Hidden Defibrillator Defects

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We just discussed the proposed settlement of a case in which the Guidant subsidiary of Boston Scientific was alleged to have withheld infor...
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Friday, April 23, 2010

Explaining Health Care Executives' Impunity - the (Unexplained) Leniency of Prosecutors

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On Health Care Renewal, we noted many legal settlements and criminal convictions in cases alleging unethical behavior by health care organ...
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Thursday, April 08, 2010

What Me Worry? - Leaders Prosper Despite Questions About Their Organizations' Ethics and Performance

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There were two examples in the recent news about how the leaders of health care organizations seem to prosper no matter what questions are r...
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Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Who Guards the Guardians? - the Case of Boston Scientific

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The fallout from the case of the faulty implantable cardiac defibrillators continues.  To summarize the story thus far, We started posting...
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

New Investigations of Boston Scientific, but New CEO Made $33.5 Million for Half a Year's Work

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It appears that device-maker Boston Scientific has a new set of troubles.  The Boston Globe just reported : Stepped-up government scrutiny ...
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Thursday, December 24, 2009

Boston Scientific (Again) Settles - This Time, Charges of Kickbacks Disguised as Clinical Studies

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One would think that the stories about bad behavior by health care organizations would quiet down just before Christmas, but no... As repo...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Boston Scientific to Plead Guilty (of Suppressing Information about Failure-Prone Defibrillators)

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In the early days of Health Care Renewal (2005-2006) we posted several times about allegations that Guidant hid information about defects in...
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss? - Health Care Reform to be Lead by a Director of Boston Scientific, Cerner, and Medco

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Today we learned that President Obama has announced his new picks for Secretary of Health and Human Services and for Director of the White H...
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Friday, January 09, 2009

What, The RUC? - A Prominent Health Care Policy Blog Leaves Some Important Things Out

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A new US President, health care costs that continue to rise despite declining access and questionable quality, even during an unprecedented ...
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