Remember that New York Times story on how that heart implant manufacturer started doing major bu$ine$$ with UMC after it started paying heart docs fat consulting fees?

UMC honcho Kathy Silver has since fired back: But those wonderful cash-greased heart implants really work! Other medical pros counter-fire back in an update: And how can you tell, exactly? From the New York Times:

Several medical experts have disputed the basis for a Las Vegas hospital’s claim that patients benefited when cardiologists there switched to heart devices made by a company that paid it consulting fees, saying data to support that claim did not exist.

 

This month, University Medical Center of Southern Nevada said in a statement, “results to date show significantly improved outcomes for our cardiac patients” who got heart implants made by a little-known company, Biotronik. The statement was attributed to Kathleen Silver, the chief executive of the hospital.