US Fines J&J $9.75 Million Over Kickbacks to Surgeon for Overseas Surgeries

US Fines J&J $9.75 Million Over Kickbacks to Surgeon for Overseas Surgeries
The Johnson & Johnson logo on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on May 29, 2019. Brendan McDermid/Reuters
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Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy Synthes unit will pay $9.75 million to settle U.S. Department of Justice accusations that DePuy illegally provided free products to a Massachusetts surgeon who used them in spinal surgeries in six Middle Eastern countries.

According to settlement papers, the surgeon used more than $100,000 of DePuy’s implants and instruments between July 2013 and Feb. 2018 in more than 20 surgeries in Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.