More Multi-Million Dollar Orthopods

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Mon, 06/30/2008 - 16:00

Starting last year, we posted (here , here , here , and here ) about the payments, often huge, that five manufacturers of prosthetic joints (Biomet , DePuy Orthopaedics (a unit of Johnson & Johnson ), Stryker Orthopedics,a unit of Stryker Inc , Zimmer Holdings , and Smith & Nephew ) revealed they made to orthopedic surgeons and various academic and other organizations.

We also noted that some of the...

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