Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Jul 2018
Secret pacemaker payments boosting private hospital coffers but costing the health system
3 July 2018 - When Nola Droop suffered a bout of breathlessness in 2016, she had no idea it meant her heart was failing.
The grandmother was in good health and had no other signs of illness, so her doctor's diagnosis shocked her.
But unbeknown to Nola, the piece of technology keeping her heart beating may have attracted a lucrative payment that's been loosely termed a "rebate".
