{"id":8318,"date":"2017-10-02T08:51:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T12:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8318"},"modified":"2017-10-02T08:51:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T12:51:42","slug":"heart-device-failure-medicare-spent-1-5b-over-10-years-to-replace-defective-implants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8318","title":{"rendered":"Heart Device Failure: Medicare Spent $1.5B Over 10 Years To Replace Defective Implants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Fred Schulte and Christina Jewett for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Medicare paid at least $1.5 billion over a decade to replace seven types of defective heart devices, a government watchdog says. The devices apparently failed for thousands of senior patients. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/heart-device-failure-medicare-spent-1-5b-over-10-years-to-replace-defective-implants\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=56899197&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8GcAXnWJP66Gmc2VA5tnt39AyJ2PvVjon0zWMCEy4EMKnOl9tG2z-9lYyhMUMOD33GSGjbzFyjrBUlLjjTzHJB9gV2Sg&amp;_hsmi=56899197\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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