Showing posts with label legal settlements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label legal settlements. Show all posts

Monday, May 18, 2015

AstraZeneca Settles

Here is the latest in the parade of legal settlements of cases of alleged wrong-doing by health care organizations.  As reported by Duff Wil...
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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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Omnicare, IVAX Settle

Settlements and kickbacks and corporate integrity agreements, oh my (to the tune of "lions and tigers and bears, oh my") To quot...
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Friday, May 15, 2015

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

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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Spectranetics Settles

I could not let this story, which came out just before the new year, completely slip by.  As reported by the Colorado Springs Gazette : Sp...
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Abbott Laboratories Settles

Another day, another settlement, this time,as reported by Reuters : New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Abbott Laboratories (ABT.N...
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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Drowning our Sorrows in Ketchup: Novartis Settles, Appoints Former Heinz Executive CEO

Here's the latest corporate health care marcher in the legal settlement parade, as reported in the Wall Street Journal . Swiss drug gi...
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Atricure Settles

The march of legal settlements continues.  This time, the US Department of Justice announced , Atricure Inc., a medical device manufacture...
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More Settlements: Christ Hospital, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries

For the end of the week, a round-up of the latest legal settlements involving large health care organizations, in alphabetical order.... C...
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Merck Settles Another Vioxx Case

All the shenanigans that went on in the course of Merck's marketing of the now withdrawn Cox-2 inhibitor non-steroidal anti-inflammatory...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Cardinal Health Settles, Novartis Settles

And the march of settlements continues.... As reported by the Tulsa (Oklahoma) World , A company that provides hospital pharmacy managem...
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The Argument Over Insurance Rate Hikes: A Systemic Problem with Health Care Organizations' Leadership and Governance?

There has been a tremendous amount of news coverage of a large rate increase proposed by Anthem Blue Cross, a subsidiary of WellPoint, in Ca...
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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

King Pharmaceuticals Settles and One Columnist Writes that Such Settlements are Not the Answer

Here we go again.  The latest settlement in the parade was made by the Alpharma subsidiary of King Pharmaceuticals, as reported by Reuters ...
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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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