{"id":22779,"date":"2024-04-30T07:50:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T11:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22779"},"modified":"2024-04-30T07:50:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T11:50:07","slug":"what-consumers-should-know-as-philips-agrees-to-1-1-billion-cpap-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22779","title":{"rendered":"What consumers should know as Philips agrees to $1.1 billion CPAP settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Bill Chappell for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Millions of CPAP sleep apnea machines made by the medical device maker Philips and a subsidiary were found to have a dangerous problem, triggering consumer lawsuits and a massive recall in 2021. Now, Philips has reached a $1.1 billion deal to settle claims from people who say they were injured. A portion of the funds will also go toward medical monitoring.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/04\/29\/1247774390\/cpap-philips-sleep-apnea-injury-lawsuit\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/04\/29\/1247774390\/cpap-philips-sleep-apnea-injury-lawsuit\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Bill Chappell for NPR) Millions of CPAP sleep apnea machines made by the medical device maker Philips and a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,21,19,14],"tags":[1297,76,238,647],"class_list":["post-22779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fda","category-health-care-finance","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions","category-medical-technology","tag-cpap-settlement","tag-fda","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-legal-actions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22780,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22779\/revisions\/22780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}