devices, which they bought or made themselves, to hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers to use on patients in procedures typically performed by the physician-owners of the PODs... implants to hospitals and whether that s associated with any increase in utilization of those implants. Without citing any numbers, the OIG added, PODs appear to be quickly... growing into other areas, such as cardiac implants. So, no one knows how many PODs there are. No one knows how many medical devices have been sold to hospitals or ASCs by PODs. No one...