Inside a Surgical Device Kickback Scheme

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This is a fascinating story about crooked staffers who knew how to game the system at a medical center and make a lot of money.

http://www.outpatientsurgery.net/news/2011/10/21-Inside-a-Surgical-Device-Kickback-Scheme

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The gal in the center of it "dies'" driving through a fast food restaurant before her testimony? Guess she lost control of her car, but oh my, the writer in me sees a whole bunch of storylines to exploit in this story. It's amazing how long the scheme worked and its bad PR for the company she worked for. Greed tripped them up. Thanks for sharing.

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That whole thing blows my mind, but I simply don't see how you die in a fast food drive-thru???

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Some recent news about hospital adminstrators in San Diego taking pathetically small kickbacks from a certain group of skilled nursing facilities to steer patients over to them inspired me to ook for simiar cases, and I ended up on this page.

The story about devices is intriguing but the link in the original post doesn't work anymore. Searching outpatientsurgery.net for the article in search of an updated link yielded nothing.

Then I used good old Google to search the entire internet for the title of the article, which I placed inside "this kind" of quotation marks, not 'this kind', when I typed it in.

Here is the current link to the article!

Inside a Surgical Device Kickback Scheme

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Some recent news about hospital adminstrators in San Diego taking pathetically small kickbacks from a certain group of skilled nursing facilities to steer patients over to them inspired me to ook for simiar cases, and I ended up on this page.

The story about devices is intriguing but the link in the original post doesn't work anymore. Searching outpatientsurgery.net for the article in search of an updated link yielded nothing.

Then I used good old Google to search the entire internet for the title of the article, which I placed inside "this kind" of quotation marks, not 'this kind', when I typed it in.

Here is the current link to the article!

Inside a Surgical Device Kickback Scheme

Wow! This is crazy, I don't care how old this article is

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