Category: Medical Device Fraud
Medical Device Manufacturer Triggered False Claims Act Liability by Allegedly Submitting False NIH Grant Application
Each year, the federal government doles out billions of dollars in grant money, some of which is acquired or used based upon fraudulent misrepresentations made...
FCA Liability Awaits Medical Device Companies That Submit False 510(k) Notices to Avoid Class III Premarket Approval Process
Increasingly, the United State Department of Justice is cracking down on medical device makers who fraudulently obtain FDA clearance for their products. DOJ is particularly...
Start-Up Medical Device Fraud is Rampant in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley has become a hotbed for start-up medical device companies…and also some medical device fraud. In particular, several medical device companies are marketing their...
Medtronic Companies Pay Millions as Devices were Manufactured Outside of the United States
Recently, the United States alleged medical device fraud when Medtronic companies (Medtronic plc, Medtronic Inc., Medtronic USA Inc., and Medtronic sofamor Danek USA Inc.) were caught...
DOJ Recovers Funds from Physician Who Allegedly Received Kickbacks
Last year, medical device maker CareFusion agreed to pay the government $40.1 million to settle False Claims Act (FCA) allegations that it paid kickbacks to...
Are Some Medical Device Companies Trying to Induce Hospitals to Perform Unnecessary Inpatient Procedures?
As medical technology has advanced, more and more surgical procedures have become outpatient procedures. Medicare has encouraged this migration out of the hospital by only...
Medical Device Manufacturers Marketing Pre-1976 Devices for Unapproved Uses
In 1976, Congress amended the FDCA to require any post-1976 devices to be approved via the rigorous Pre-Market Approval (PMA) process, unless the manufacturer could...
Medical Device Manufacturer and Its Former CEO Plead Guilty to Distributing FDA-Rejected Devices to Heath Care Providers
False Claims Act violations can arise when medical device manufacturers sidestep the FDA pre-marketing approval process. Evidence of such misdirection is especially compelling when manufacturers...
Seven Whistleblowers Team up to Blow the Whistle on Neurosurgeon and Medical Device Supplier for Allegedly Violating the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute
First brought to the attention of the government in January 2012 by a qui tam lawsuit filed by several physicians, and others, the Justice Department...