'One doesn’t need a long memory to recall the time when ads for 1-800-GET-THIN were all but inescapable...Beneath the uplifting commercial pitch, however, was a grimmer reality.' Column by hiltzikm:
One of the locations where the Lap-Band surgeries were performed, a ground-floor office on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, had lost an important federal certification in 2009 after government inspectors determined that conditions there posed “immediate jeopardy to the health and safety” of patients.
Column: 1-800-GET-THIN: Regulators and insurers twiddled thumbs as a $250-million medical fraud allegedly unfolded Responsible regulators would have screamed from the rooftops about a loophole that prevented them from doing their jobs. Not the Medical Board, which complacently allowed the loophole to go unfilled. The board outsourced its supervision of surgical clinics to four independent accreditation agencies, which were expected to perform inspections and hold the clinics to professional standards.
Allergan continued to sell Lap-Bands to those affiliates even after local, state and federal agencies began to raise questions about the advertising, surgery-related deaths and accusations of insurance fraud. Allergan initially told me that it had no legal right to stop selling its product to the 1-800-GET-THIN affiliates, and had no control over the ad campaign underplaying the dangers of the surgery.
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