According to the C-HIT report, DePuy Orthopaedics, maker of the DePuy hip replacement devices, paid more than $80 million to approximately 200 physicians across the US since 2009. Those payments were reportedly made to compensate doctors for "promotion, research and consultation."Some surgeons were paid more than $1 million in 2010, despite the recall of two of DePuy's hip implant products. Earlier this year, DePuy Orthopaedics announced a recall of the Acetabular ASR XL and the ASR Hip Resurfacing System. Approximately 93,000 people worldwide received one of the two implants.
It should be noted that there is no evidence that acceptance of the compensation from DePuy resulted in any doctors choosing DePuy products over those of a different company. Physicians who were interviewed for the article said they were paid for legitimate work they did for DePuy, including research and teaching other doctors how to place the implants.
Patients who received the recalled DePuy devices could face revision surgery if their implant fails. Approximately 37,000 patients in the US received a recalled DePuy hip implant, which reportedly has a failure rate of between 12 and 13 percent within five years of implantation. Most hip replacement devices are expected to last approximately 15 years.
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Following announcement of the recall, lawsuits were filed against DePuy Orthopaedics, alleging its hip implant devices were unreasonably defective and further alleging the company failed to warn physicians about the risks associated with the hip implant products. Those lawsuits have reportedly now been consolidated into a multi-district litigation in Ohio.
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Harold A
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i had a hip installed in my left hip area made by dupuy... i have mfg. lables telling me of the 5 parts i received.. this was
4 month of 06with in a month i started getting pains ..... but doctor said the implant was good soon i could not sit walk
sleep are lying downso i purchased a mobile scooter.to get around.... after 18 months of pain i had it removed and now no pain..
the hip parts were DePuy acetabular cup lot. af3f51000.
DePuy Pinnacle marathon lot z55c41000
the ref. number and lot number was differant on each piece
mabe this was the problem i do not know
if any one had this implant at that time let me no if you had problems thanks phone
Cheryl Walker
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I have unbelievablable amounts of original re rods and documents of Insurance Fraud, showing my attorneys collaborating on manipulated dates to help complete my case in 2007 Hiding the fact that what was put in my leg by my surgeon was NOT FDA APPROVED, worse is I was NOT a Patient Fit for the Profile for the product FDA had Approved surgeons to use that product.
I had 6 months before had my left knee replace with the same company but with their #1 Knee System. I went in then 6 months later in Aug. 12, 2003 to have the right knee replaced with 'the Same #1 Knee System.' I also have the documents the surgeon requested and filed for my Insurance to approved the same #1 knee system implant procedure which he did get the same response as approved.
So to even begin my case when I went into my attorneys they knew up front what I had on this surgeon and the fraud he represented not only to me but to my Insurance Company. I was devastated when told this surgeon put a new product in my leg. There is so much more to this story but it is unbelievable how I was stolen from by all these named groups.
I have lost my health, my career, my reputation and so much more by these frauds slander of my name to put a rap of theft on my name in Bankruptcy for 4 Knee Surgeries not caused by my doing. These men never told me the truth about the FDA UNAPPROVAL. THEN I can show where my attorneys even kept the truth about the governments investigation of the Kickbacks paid to these surgeon BECAUSE my Surgeon had bragged so much to me about how he worked on the side for Smith and Nephew.
please give me your time to show my work and truths in legal documents and the illegal fraud against my rights. I have the biggest Whistleblower Case against so many attorneys, mediators, Trustee, Senator Tom Coburn, Hospital is owned by this surgeon in Oklahoma with so much more. They all know the documents I have, and have tried to get them out of my hands also refusing to hand over all my files and erasing some of the recording I had given them of this Surgeon. the surgeons Attorney has gone as far as threaten me of the Company harming me, and had recordings of their representatives saying so. But, refusing to help me or protect me.
I have been black-balled in Oklahoma by attorneys turning me away saying they have a conflict of interest or I do not get returned calls.