HEALTH CARE
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Baxter International Barred: In what could cost the company more than $125 million, the world’s largest hospital supply corporation was barred by the Veterans Affairs Department from doing business with the federal government for up to a year. The VA said the Deerfield, Ill., company tried to get the agency to pay for products not included in company-awarded contracts. James Tobin, Baxter’s president, said that in 1991 the company undertook internal accounting and pricing changes to comply with VA requests, and that, “We heard nothing further from them about this matter until their news release.”
