The government's data on payments to doctors and hospitals by drug and device makers is incomplete and hard to penetrate – but here's a first look.
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by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica
The federal government unveiled data Tuesday detailing 4.4 million payments made to doctors and teaching hospitals by pharmaceutical and medical device companies.
Medtronic and Covidien appoint representatives to the integration team charged with combining their peripheral vascular businesses as part of their $43 billion merger.
The FDA asks medical device manufacturers to submit documentation about controls they have in place to mitigate the threat of hackers accessing their devices, including ongoing software patches and updates to operating systems.
The FDA is asking medical device manufacturers to submit documentation about cybersecurity controls they have in place to mitigate the threat of hackers accessing devices, including ongoing software patches and updates to operating systems.
EndoStim hopes to raise $36 million in an initial public offering to support development of a pacemaker-like device to treat severe gastroesophageal reflux disease.
EndoStim said it hopes to raise nearly $36 million in an initial public offering, with plans to plow $10 million into clinical studies of its system to treat severe gastroesophageal reflux disease and another $14 million to commercialize the system.
Endo International agrees to settle as many as 20,000 lawsuits filed in U.S. courts against its American Medical Systems subsidiary over its pelvic mesh implants.
Orange County, Calif.'s most-networked man, OCTANe's Matthew Jenusaitis talks to MassDevice.com about OCTANe's 2014 Medical Device Investor Forum.
OCTANe, the industry council responsible for promoting the innovation climate in Orange County, Calif., existed before Matthew Jenusaitis arrived, but he has put his mark on the organization's impact on one of the world's largest med tech clusters.
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.
