A surgeon at the University of Wisconsin-Madison received millions of dollars from a medical device company, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, says.
Grassley claimed in a letter to university President Kevin Reilly that Dr. Thomas Zdeblick received more than $19 million from Medtronic between 2003 and 2007, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported. Zdeblick, who heads the orthopedics department at the medical school, acknowledged three years ago that Medtronic was paying him $400,000 a year.