House debates
Monday, 31 October 2011
Questions in Writing
Hip Replacement Operations (Question No. 465)
George Christensen (Dawson, National Party) Share this | Hansard source
asked the Minister for Health and Ageing, in writing, on 16 August 2011:
In respect of hip replacement operations utilizing now recalled products manufactured by DePuy Orthopedics, Inc., a division of Johnson & Johnson, Inc., (a) how many of these operations were funded by Medicare, and at what cost, (b) what was the cost to the Government of patients who have or will have revision surgery, and (c) what is the Government doing to recoup, from DePuy Orthopaedic, the money it has invested in the use of these products, including revision surgery.
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