Medtronic questioned on payments by senator: report
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Senator Charles Grassley is raising questions about payments made by medical devices maker Medtronic Inc to spine surgeons, the New York Times reported on its Website on Thursday.
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A jury in Memphis, Tenn. has ordered a company owned by Fridley-based Medtronic Inc. to pay an inventor $110 million in damages. The jury ruled that Medtronic Sofamor Danek Inc.
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The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the medical supply industry over concerns that some health care providers bilked government programs including Medicare, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
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A former natural gas trader for a hedge fund facing congressional scrutiny yesterday disputed the findings of Senate investigators who blamed high natural gas prices last winter on the company's speculative bets.
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The chairman of a key Senate committee said Tuesday he would consider administration proposals to charge some veterans new or higher fees for their health care and medicine, even though Congress has previously rejected the idea.
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Democratic lawmakers said Thursday a report by The Associated Press raised "serious questions" about test methods conducted by the Consumer Product Safety Commission for unsafe amounts of lead in children's vinyl lunch boxes.
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Fraud in the &#36;300-billion-a-year Medicaid program is widespread and the federal government is not doing enough to combat it, congressional investigators said in a report released Wednesday.
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A federal court jury on Tuesday ordered a Medtronic subsidiary to pay about $110 million in a dispute between the company and a doctor who invented some of its spinal fusion technologies.
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Don't assume that your complicated medical bill is correct. Errors on bills for doctors, medical tests or hospitals can result in overcharges that run from a few dollars to tens of thousands of dollars.
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A Memphis jury on Tuesday ordered a Medtronic subsidiary to pay about $110 million plus possible punitive damages in a dispute between the company and the doctor who invented some of its spinal fusion technologies.
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NEWARK, New Jersey  - Four medical device makers will pay a total of $311 million and agreed to federal monitoring to settle a government probe into consulting deals prosecutors said were made with surgeons to sway decisions on which hip and knee implants to give to patients.
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A US jury told Medtronic Inc., the world&#39;s biggest maker of spinal implants, to pay at least $109 million to an inventor for violating contracts and infringing his patents.
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In the wake of Medtronicâs heart device recall, a Congressional committee announced plans to review how rigorously the F.D.A. required heart device components to be tested.
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U.S. senators questioned Thursday whether members of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission plan to enforce merger conditions that AT&T Inc. agreed to in its December acquisition of BellSouth Corp.
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Democratic control of the next US Senate was suddenly cast into doubt after a lawmaker was rushed to the hospital after suffering a possible stroke, his staff said.
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Congress' watchdog should  investigate how financial products are sold on military bases,  two senators urged on Wednesday, after reports some insurers  and mutual fund companies target soldiers with pricey,  questionable products.
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The US government may not be spending enough on oversight of state activities that uncover and deter fraud in the Medicaid health program, according to a congressional watchdog agency report released Thursday.