Heart Pump Maker Abiomed Pays $3.1M Civil Penalty For Inducing Use Of Its Devices

(March 9, 2018, 11:40 AM EST) -- BOSTON — Heart pump maker Abiomed Inc. has agreed to pay $3.1 million to resolve a False Claims Act, 31 U.S. Code § 3729, lawsuit that the company bought lavish meals for physicians to induce the doctors to use the company’s Impella line of heart pumps, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts announced March 8....

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