{"id":6271,"date":"2011-01-28T15:36:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T20:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=6271"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:36","slug":"justice-department-files-new-suit-against-boston-scientific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2011\/01\/28\/justice-department-files-new-suit-against-boston-scientific\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department Files New Suit Against Boston Scientific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/2011\/January\/11-civ-117.html\">The U.S. Department of Justice has filed another suit against Boston Scientific.<\/a> The government claims that Guidant (bought by Boston Scientific in 2006) sold the\u00a0Ventak Prizm 2 and the Renewal 1 and 2 devices even after the company knew they were defective.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/2011\/January\/11-civ-035.html\">Boston Scientific was convicted and sentenced <\/a>in a criminal case\u00a0to pay more than $296 million for withholding information from the FDA about &#8220;catastrophic failures&#8221; in these devices. The suit filed yesterday is designed to recover Medicare payments for the devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Justice has filed another suit against Boston Scientific. The government claims that Guidant (bought by Boston Scientific in 2006) sold the\u00a0Ventak Prizm 2 and the Renewal 1 and 2 devices even after the company knew they were defective. Earlier this month\u00a0Boston Scientific was convicted and sentenced in a criminal case\u00a0to pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[448],"class_list":["post-6271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrophysiology","tag-icds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}