Cardiologist Inserts Hundreds Of Unnecessary Heart Stents

Abbott, a $30 billion-a-year, Chicago-based pharmaceutical firm, ranked Midei among its top-volume doctors in the Northeast and made plying him with research money and “VIP trips” part of its business plan in late 2008 — about the time Midei’s usage of Abbott-brand stents soared, the report said.  The 170-page document contains the findings of a months-long investigation by the U.S. Senate.

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