Today's New York Times online reports:
A long-running federal investigation into the orthopedic device industry's suspected kickback payments to hip and knee surgeons now has the doctors in the spotlight.Having reached settlements with the five leading makers of artificial joints last year over the payments, the government has been focusing on the many doctors who receive money as the companies’ paid consultants.
"We are going to be looking at those soliciting kickbacks," Lewis Morris, the chief counsel in the federal office that pursues civil complaints of Medicare fraud, told an audience of hundreds of doctors, company representatives and investors this month in San Francisco at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons.
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