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Full Measure After Hours

After Hours: Did VA Doctors Take Bribes to Buy and Use Unnecessary Medical Devices on Vets? (From the Archives)

Full Measure After Hours

Sharyl Attkisson

News, Full Measure, News Commentary

51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

A medical sales rep blows the whistle on an alleged kickback scheme where he says a company bribed staff at a Veterans Affairs hospital to buy unnecessary medical devices at taxpayer expense, and use them in medically unnecessary procedures on veterans. The company and doctors dispute the allegations and deny any wrongdoing.


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0:20.1

Hi, everybody. Cheryl Ackison here.

0:22.9

I hope you enjoy this special

0:24.6

from the archives edition

0:26.5

of Full Measure After Hours.

0:34.1

Hi everybody. Cheryl

0:35.7

Ackison here.

0:37.0

Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours.

0:40.5

Today, a medical sales rep blows the whistle on an alleged kickback scheme, where he says a company bribed staff at a VA hospital to buy unnecessary medical devices at taxpayer expense and use them in medically unnecessary procedures on vets.

1:00.4

On Sunday, April 21st on full measure, a fascinating story that you should care about on many levels,

1:07.6

but not the least of which is that it involves alleged misspending of your tax money.

1:12.9

A whistleblower claims that a company Medtronic bribed doctors at a VA hospital to get them to

1:18.6

buy a ridiculous amount of Medtronic products unnecessarily and to use them unnecessarily on

1:25.0

veterans at taxpayer expense. We're talking millions of dollars.

1:29.7

In official court filings, it's an alleged kickback scheme. Now, I want to let you know before

1:35.1

you hear the interviewer with the whistleblower and his allegations that all of this is the

1:39.6

subject of legal action and investigations. Medtronic, the accused company, has said the allegations

1:45.9

in this case are false and that Medtronic will continue to defend the litigation as it moves ahead.

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