Justice Department
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Justice Department
The Justice Department is investigating whether the country's three big makers of implanted heart devices, Medtronic, Guidant and St. Jude Medical, used illegal inducements to get doctors to use their products. The Justice Department investigation is said to be looking at whether the big companies, among other things, provided doctors with excessive payments to enroll patients in post-marketing studies of their devices as a way of increasing sales. In October, when the Justice Department issued its subpoenas, it did not send one to Ela Medical.