Hip Maker Stryker Investigated By Feds Over Alleged Payoffs
Stryker Corp, one of the nations largest artificial hip and knee makers, is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice over allegations that one or more representatives of Stryker illegally paid surgeons to motivate them to use the prosthetics according to a lawsuit filed last week against Stryker.
The Feds are looking at $40 million in payments that Stryker issued last year to over 200 doctors through consulting agreements, which if true, would be considered staggering and would not bode well for Stryker Corp.
While Styker may dispute illegal payoffs to surgeons to use their artificial knees and hips, what is not in dispute is that people continue to have problems with these prosthetics, including ongoing pain caused by the defective products and medically necessary surgery to remove and extract the defective prosthetics.
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