HealthLeaders Media June 18, 2024
Eric Wicklund

The founder and CEO of a medical device company has been convicted of selling an implantable medical device to providers that didn’t work at all—and then creating a replacement part that was also fake.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

– Innovative healthcare technology often holds the promise of improving clinical outcomes, but providers need to do due diligence on those vendors.

– New York authorities have convicted the founder and CEO of a medical device company that marketed a fake implantable neurostimulator.

– The executive was convicted of passing off a piece of plastic as a part of the device that could be implanted in a patient and receive electric charges.

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