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Boston Scientific Settles Claims of Guidant Device Kickbacks

January 4, 2010
Boston Scientific will pay $22 million to settle a Justice Department investigation into allegations that its Guidant subsidiary paid kickbacks to physicians who implanted its pacemakers and defibrillators in postmarket studies. The company also has entered into a five-year corporate integrity agreement with the HHS Office of Inspector General, which requires the company’s cardiac rhythm management division to publicly disclose its payments to physicians on a website beginning June 30, 2011.
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