St. Jude Pays $16 Million to Settle Kickback Probe
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St. Jude Medical Inc. agreed to pay $16 million to settle a U.S. government probe of claims the company paid kickbacks to doctors who implanted its heart devices in patients.
The accord resolves a five-year investigation of St. Jude’s marketing practices for defibrillators and pacemakers. Investigators began probing the St. Paul, Minnesota-based company’s payments to doctors after its employees alerted them about the scheme, federal prosecutors said today.