Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts

Monday, May 18, 2015

Did a Yakuza Boss Pay "A Million Dollars for One Liver?"

One of the more bizarre stories to appear on Health Care Renewal just resurfaced.  To summarize, in June, 2008, we posted  about the strange...
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Boston Scientific to Plead Guilty (of Suppressing Information about Failure-Prone Defibrillators)

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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Former McKesson CEO and Board Chairman Convicted of Fraud

Continuing with our annals of health care crime, Bloomberg.com reported a new verdict on a very old case: Former McKesson Corp. Chairman ...
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Sunday, May 17, 2015

"Person No. 7," Also Known as the 83rd Richest Man in the World

This one nearly snuck by.  A Settlement and Some Indictments In May, 2009, we posted that international Swiss-based medical device manu...
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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Physician Pleads Guilty to Fraud for Fabricating Celebrex (and Other) Study Data

As reported by the Springfield, MA, Republican : A former chief of acute pain at Baystate Medical Center has agreed to plead guilty to fal...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Sacks Medical, KV Pharmaceutical Plead Guilty, Mariner Health Care, SavaSeniorCare Settle

The march of legal settlements and guilty pleas by health care organizations just keeps going.  The most recent participants were: Sacks M...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

City Hospital System Board Member Fined for Conflict of Interest Involving Proprietary, Off-Shore Medical School

Sometimes I think I have now seen every type of conflict of interest that could afflict health care, but then some amazing new variation on ...
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The Settlement and Conviction Round-Up: Friday Frequent Flier Edition

It's time for one of our periodic round-ups of legal settlements and convictions of health care organizations.  This time, we report on ...
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New Investigations of Boston Scientific, but New CEO Made $33.5 Million for Half a Year's Work

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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Who Guards the Guardians? - the Case of Boston Scientific

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

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

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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