Should Doctors Also Act as Device Sellers?

Physician-owned distributorships (PODs), commonly used by spinal surgeons and others to procure and distribute the medical devices for the procedures they perform, are coming under fire.”While these arrangements are not always problematic, we are seeing more and more of these physician-salespeople using the very devices they sell in the surgeries and procedures they perform,” Senate Finance Committee chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), said at a hearing on PODs last month. Read More