The settlement resolves allegations that Biotronik engaged in a scheme to pay favored physicians to induce and reward their use of Biotronik’s pacemakers, defibrillators and other cardiac devices.
The settlement also resolves allegations that Biotronik violated the Anti-Kickback Statute when it paid for physicians’ parties, tours, lavish meals with no legitimate business purpose, and international business class airfare in exchange for making brief appearances at international conferences.
