Most Popular Stories
- UnitedHealth Group (UNH) Q3 Results - Q3 Top Health Insurance Company Earnings Report
- Senators ponder varied tax increases, including non-profit hospital tax
- WellPoint (WLP) Q3 Results - Q3 Top Health Insurance Company Earnings Report
- Aetna (AET) Q3 Results - Q3 Top Health Insurance Company Earnings Report
- SPOTLIGHT: Top health insurance company earnings reports for Q3
- Bill would let Medicare delay payments when fraud, waste suspected
Featured Jobs
-
General Surgeon Job in Colorado
StaffPointe, LLC - front range of Rockies, CO -
Neurology Job in Pennsylvania
StaffPointe, LLC - Pittsburgh, PA -
Endocrinologist Job in Washington
StaffPointe, LLC - near Seattle, WA -
Senior Clinical Lab Technician- Histology
Makro Health - Carlsbad, CA -
Family Practice Job in Illinois
StaffPointe, LLC - central, IL
Events
- Harvard Business School 7th Healthcare Conference
January 30, 2010 - Security Audits: Is Your Organization Prepared and In Compliance?
Dec.3 at 12 pm CT
Paid Research Reports
- Pricing and Reimbursement in Key Asia Pacific Markets
- Delivery Mechanisms for Large Molecule Drugs: Successes and failures of leading technologies and key drivers for market success
- The Cardiovascular Market Outlook to 2013: Competitive landscape, global market analysis and pipeline analysis
- Intellectual Property and Outsourcing in China: Minimizing risk whilst maximizing return on investment
- Health Care Equipment & Supplies: Global Industry Guide
- 2009 Trends to Watch: Healthcare Technology
FEATURES >> YouTube | Top acute-care hospitals | Women in Health IT | Top BlackBerry Apps | Commentary
TOPICS >> Stimulus | Health Reform | CMS News | Finance | EMRs | Mobile Healthcare | Hospital Leadership Blog
Free Newsletter
FierceHealthcare is the leading source of healthcare management news for healthcare industry executives. Join 46,000+ healthcare industry insiders who get FierceHealthcare via daily email. Sign up today!
Popular Topics
- Medicare
- health plans
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Insurance
- Electronic Medical Records (EMRs)
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
- Medicaid
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- healthcare system
- prescription drugs
- health reform
- pharmaceutical companies
U.S. Senator questions partnership between cardiologists, medical devicemaker-backed group
Expect to see a lot more stories like this in one in coming months, folks, as it's become extremely popular to challenge medical devicemaker and pharmaceutical financing of, well, anything that doesn't involve their internal operations. This time, the American College of Cardiology has come under the spotlight, with a U.S. Senator questioning whether the sponsor's connections with the medical devicemakers presents a conflict of interest.
Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI) has sent a letter out asking the American College of Cardiology to share information on the group's new partnership with the non-profit Cardiovascular Research Foundation. The foundation is co-sponsoring a special summit at the annual ACC convention focused on interventional cardiology. What seemingly concerns Kohl is the fact that the CRF gets funding from several medical device manufacturers, including Medtronic and Boston Scientific Corp.
Such companies have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on doctors for gifts, contracts and event sponsorships, and relationships that can compromise the recipient's judgment, he suggests. Kohl has cosponsored legislation that would require drug and medical device companies to post payments to doctors on a government website, including consulting fees, entertainment and travel funding, continuing medical education and participation in conferences.
To learn more about Kohl's inquiry:
- read this Minneapolis Star-Tribune piece
Related Articles:
Medtronic to disclose gifts to healthcare groups
NJ mulls pharma, device maker gift reporting
Drug company funding for universities under more pressure
Cardiac surgeon faces conflict-of-interest challenge
Related Stories
- Senators want info on who paid doctors
- Medtronic deal with spine surgeon draws Grassley's ire
- SPOTLIGHT: Medtronic says it paid doctor $788,000
- Boston Scientific, Medtronic slammed with renewed $600M award
- Drug companies plan to disclose grant funding
- Cardiologists stand by stents
- Defibrillator market faces problems
- Cambridge Heart Test wins Medicare approval
- Law could hurt device makers
- Guidant Merger Signifies Technological Shift
Comments
Post new comment
Home
| Subscribe | Advertise | Mobile Edition | RSS |
Privacy
| Site Map | List in Marketplace | Supplier MarketplaceTHE FIERCEMARKETS NETWORKFierceFinance | FierceFinanceIT | FierceComplianceIT | FierceHealthcare | FierceHealthFinance | FierceHealthIT | Hospital Impact | FierceMobileHealthcare | FierceCIO | FierceCIO:TechWatch | FierceContentManagement | FierceMobileIT | FierceGovernmentIT | FierceBiotech | FierceBiotech Research | FiercePharma | FierceVaccines | FierceBiotechIT | FiercePharma Manufacturing | FierceIPTV | FierceOnlineVideo | FierceTelecom | FierceVoIP | FierceBroadbandWireless | FierceDeveloper | FierceMobileContent | FierceWireless | FierceWireless:Europe© 2009 FierceMarkets, Inc. All rights reserved. |
![]() |





