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| | Stryker Corporation - For Investors - News |
 | | KALAMAZOO, Mich., Dec. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Stryker Corporation (NYSE: SYK) announced today that its subsidiary, Physiotherapy Associates, Inc., and Stryker have received a subpoena from the United States Attorney's Office in Boston, Massachusetts in connection with a Department of Justice investigation of Physiotherapy Associates' billing and coding practices. |
 | | Physiotherapy Associates provides physical, occupational, and speech therapy services to patients through approximately 370 outpatient centers in the United States, and represented 7% of Stryker's net sales for the year ended December 31, 2002 and 6% of Stryker's net sales for the nine months ended September 30, 2003. |
 | | Stryker Corporation develops, manufactures and markets specialty surgical and medical products worldwide, including reconstructive implants, spinal, trauma and craniomaxillofacial systems, the bone growth factor osteogenic protein-1, powered surgical instruments, endoscopic and surgical navigation systems and patient care and handling equipment, and provides outpatient physical therapy services in the United States. |
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