Medical device, drug companies paid $3.5B to docs, hospitals in 2013

Medical device and pharmaceutical companies paid out $3.5 billion to doctors and hospitals during the last 5 months of 2013, according to new data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, including a $30 million spend by Medtronic.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. doctors and teaching hospitals received $3.5 billion from medical device makers and pharmaceutical companies in the last 5 months of 2013, according to the most extensive data trove on such payments ever made public.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), DePuy Synthes Spine, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic

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