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If a medical supplier offers you a financial incentive to use its products, turn around and walk the other way, because the OIG is watching and it’s not worth the risk.
That’s the takeaway from a recent case involving Biotronik Inc., which paid $4.9 million last week to resolve accusations that it paid kickbacks to doctors to encourage them to use the company’s pacemakers, defibrillators and CRT devices. A Biotronik employee blew the whistle on his employer and will receive about $840,000 in exchange for his notifying the government of the accusation.
To read the complete news release on the situation, visit www.justice.gov/opa/pr/biotronik-inc-pay-49-million-resolve-claims-company-paid-kickbacks-physicians.
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