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Zimmer plans $50M plus compliance program

August 6, 2008 — 10:24am ET | By Anne Zieger
Orthopedic-device maker Zimmer Holdings is getting serious about compliance with its legal obligations--$50 million to $60 million worth of serious, according to plans outlined in its second-quarter... Read more...

CoxHealth to pay $60M to settle with feds

July 22, 2008 — 11:23pm ET | By Anne Zieger
Springfield, MO-based health system CoxHealth has agreed to pay $60 million to resolve a myriad of charges related to its financial relationships with referring physicians and its Medicare billing... Read more...

Trend: Regulators pay more attention to implant firm payments to doctors

June 30, 2008 — 10:43am ET | By Anne Zieger
For years, it's been an accepted practice for hip- and knee-replacement manufacturers to pay surgeons big bucks in the form of royalties, consulting gigs and speaker's fees, sometimes hitting... Read more...

Medtronic Spine settles false claims charges for $75M

May 23, 2008 — 6:59am ET
A subsidiary of Medtronic Spine agreed this week to pay the federal government $75 million to settle allegations that it caused submission of false claims to Medicare by a subsidiary. The allegations... Read more...

DoJ joins whistle-blower suit against OH MDs, hospital

April 2, 2008 — 7:59am ET
The U.S. Department of Justice has added its firepower to a whistle-blower lawsuit contending that a hospital in Cincinnati was rewarding cardiologists who generated the most revenue for the... Read more...

Senate questions device maker payments to surgeons

February 27, 2008 — 7:59am ET
Last year, five makers of orthopedic implants paid more than $221 million to surgeon consultants--and some Senate members want to know why. Today, the Senate Special Committee on Aging is holding a... Read more...

OIG gives thumbs up to prompt-pay discounts

February 11, 2008 — 7:59am ET
The HHS Office of the Inspector General has given its approval to a healthcare system's plan to offer prompt-pay discounts to patients who pay their share of their medical bills quickly. The system... Read more...

HHS advisories give guidance on doctor gain-sharing

February 7, 2008 — 7:59am ET
With the release of two new advisory opinions by HHS, it's clearer now how hospitals can share cost savings with doctors without running afoul of regulators. One of the two opinions address address... Read more...

HHS Ok's hospital/physician gainsharing

January 16, 2008 — 7:59am ET
Two gainsharing arrangements between a hospital and physician groups have gotten an OK in advisory opinions from the HHS Inspector General's office. The ruling assures the applicant(s) that they'd be... Read more...

Readers weigh in on device-maker kickbacks

January 11, 2008 — 7:59am ET
As some of you will recall, last week I wrote about the ongoing, cyclic nature of medical device-maker kickback schemes. First, it seems, the manufacturers do, indeed, pay kickbacks to... Read more...
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