VA hospital launches study of CHF Solutions Aquadex FlexFlow device

October 11, 2019 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

CHF Solutions (NSDQ:CHFS) said yesterday that a U.S. Veterans Administration hospital in Florida received approval to begin an outpatient study using its Aquadex FlexFlow system for fluid overload in patients with heart failure. The study, approved by Tampa’s James Haley Veterans’ Hospital & Clinics institutional review board, will be the first of its kind to run […]

Report: MiMedx held lower-cost grafts from federal hospitals

October 5, 2018 By Brad Perriello Leave a Comment

MiMedx (NSDQ:MDXG), already embroiled in an internal accounting snafu and several federal probes, reportedly held from government hospitals some of the lower-cost products it made available to private hospitals. In limiting its regenerative wound care offering to U.S. Veteran Affairs Dept. and other federal caregivers, Marietta, Ga.-based MiMedx ran up the tab on taxpayers, the Wall […]

VA taps Underwriters Labs to secure medical devices

June 20, 2016 By Fink Densford Leave a Comment

The Department of Veterans Affairs inked an agreement with testing and safety firm Underwriters Laboratories to help secure their connected medical devices from cyberattacks, according to a new report from Federal Computer Week. Read the full story at our sister site, Medical Design & Outsourcing.

Former Advanced BioHealing exec Clawson pleads guilty in VA fraud case

March 28, 2016 By Brad Perriello Leave a Comment

Former Advanced BioHealing executive Todd Clawson last week pleaded guilty to federal charges that he bribed U.S. Veterans Affairs Dept. doctors to use the company’s DermaGraft biologic wound dressing. Federal prosecutors accused Clawson, who left the company in 2012, of participating in a scheme to bribe VA physicians to use the DermaGraft diabetic foot ulcer treatment with a […]

BSX challenges patent | Medtech legal news for the week of May 18, 2015

May 18, 2015 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

Boston Scientific challenges Nevro patent

May 12, 2015 by Brad Perriello

Siemens settles federal beef for $6m

May 13, 2015 By Brad Perriello Leave a Comment

A division of Siemens (NYSE:SI) last week agreed to pay $5.9 million, but admitted no wrongdoing, to settle federal charges that it overbilled the U.S. Defense Dept.

Olympus agrees to pay $92m to settle accounting scandal | Medtech legal news for the week of April 6, 2015

April 6, 2015 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

Olympus to pay $92m to settle accounting fraud case

March 27, 2015 by MassDevice

Medtronic to pay feds $4m to settle product labeling case

April 3, 2015 By Brad Perriello Leave a Comment

Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) agreed to pay $4.4 million but admitted no wrongdoing to settle federal charges that it falsely labeled products manufactured overseas as made in the U.S.