Another Medtronic Sprint Fidelis Lead Lawsuit is Filed in Federal District Court

Parker Waichman Alonso LLP, along with Smith & Nevares, and Becnel Law Firm, LLC, File Suit against Medtronic Inc., Medtronic Puerto Rico, Inc., and Medtronic Puerto Rico Operations Co. on Behalf of Man Injured by Defective Sprint Fidelis Lead Implanted with a Medtronic Implantable ...

Medtronic Sprint Fidelis Defibrillator Lead Lawsuit Claims Center Opens to Aid Victims

Parker Waichman Alonso LLP Announces Opening of Dedicated Claims Center To Evaluate Numerous Possible Lawsuits Related to Defective Sprint Fidelis Leads Used With Medtronic Implantable Defibrillators NEW YORK, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The defective Medtronic Sprint Fidelis Defibrillat...

St. Louis Firm Brings Medicare Risk Adjustment to iPhone

... a more prospective approach to MRA. "Storan V6 enables us to dramatically improve our ROI," says Kathy Cortez, Vice President of Operations with fidelis SeniorCare. "It gives us better visibility to our member data and provides detailed analytics that allow us to make the best use of the resources we ...

HMS Adds Over One Million Lives in New Medicaid Managed Care Contracts

...ne or more of its core services -- including third party recovery and cost avoidance -- to Citrus Health Care, Inc. (FL); Community Health Group (CA); fidelis Care New York (NY); Health First (NY); Health Plan of Michigan, Inc. (MI); and Virginia Premier Health Plan, Inc. (VA). "HMS continues to add ne...

FDA Fireside Chat @ The 8th Annual MedTech Investing Conference May 6-7, 2009

...en the esteemed New England Journal of Medicine carried an article by a physician complaining about CDRH's clearance of the fractured Medtronic Sprint fidelis defibrillator leads based upon allegedly inadequate data. Finally, the General Accounting Office (GAO) published its report on the 510(k) program and...

HealthMetrix Research Selects 2009 Medicare Advantage Plans for Best Overall Benefit Value

...ior Choice Gold Award Recipients East Albany fidelis Care Allentown Unison Health Plan Atlanta ...attan, Nassau, Queens, Staten Island) (Rockland) fidelis Care (Suffolk) HIP (Westches...

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois Names New Chief Medical Officer

... the health and wellness of our members and our communities through accessible, cost-effective, quality health care.'" Sarran comes to BCBSIL from fidelis SeniorCare, for which he served as chief medical officer. While at Fidelis, Sarran was responsible for all medical policy and medical management funct...

Shareholder Class Action Filed Against Medtronic, Inc. by The Law Firm of Schiffrin Barroway Topaz & Kessler, LLP

...serious injuries caused by fractures in its Sprint fidelis defibrillator leads; (2) that the Company had fail...ld be forced to suspend distribution of its Sprint fidelis defibrillator leads; (4) that the FDA would consid...mber of adverse reports about the Company's Sprint fidelis defibrillator leads, which were attributable to ma...

Wolf Popper Announces Filing of Securities Class Action Lawsuit Against Medtronic Inc. - MDT

...isrepresented the true facts concerning the Sprint fidelis defibrillation leads, and that those true facts we...07 "about 90% of new Medtronic defibrillators used fidelis leads." By January 2007 Medtronic had received 67...orts of injuries caused by fractures in the Sprint fidelis defibrillation leads. In a meeting with Dr. Robert...

HealthMetrix Research Selects 2008 Medicare Advantage Plans for Best Overall Benefit Value

...x Research neither recommends nor endorses specific Medicare plans. 2008 Senior Choice Gold Award Recipients East Albany fidelis Care Allentown Unison Health Plan Atlanta Humana Baltimore-Washington DC Bravo Health ...

Fidelis in Biological News

New bioinformatics technique for systematically analyzing key regions in DNA that help control gene activity

...elp control gene activity. The cooperative efforts were headed by Krzysztof fidelis in the United States and by Jan Komorowski in Sweden. Understanding the c... this approach on different organisms, including microbes and vertebrates," fidelis said. The growing number of organisms whose genomes have been sequenced has...