not see corruption right in your face...
Years ago there was "The Payola Scandal" over under the turn table cash
While few died due to that one...
One might ask why should WHAT medicine you are prescribed
is determined by how much they are bought off.
Medicare/Medicaid fraud..., and a lot of doctor fraud, too...!
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Under pressure from Congress, drugmakers are starting to disclose Payments made to doctors, medical professionals
By Ken Alltucker - May. 16, 2010 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic
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Under pressure from Congress, drugmakers are starting to disclose Payments made to doctors, medical professionals
By Ken Alltucker - May. 16, 2010 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic
Pharmaceutical companies long have used office calls, free lunches and drug samples as ways to promote their products to physicians.
These perks are well-known strategies that drug representatives use to get face time to market products to busy doctors. Perhaps less well known is that drug companies also use cash, paying millions to physicians who act as consultants or speak to other doctors about the latest brand-name drugs.
Now, under pressure from Congress and legal settlements, companies for the first time are beginning to disclose payments made nationwide to doctors and medical professionals.
Five pharmaceutical companies distributed more than $2.1 million in payments to 182 Arizona doctors and health professionals last year. Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Cephalon and Pfizer all have disclosed 2009 payments made to doctors who serve as speakers, consultants, advisers or other purposes. Doctors also were reimbursed for travel and meals.
Psychiatrists were among the top takers of pharmaceutical money compared with those in other specialties. Of the 21 Arizona doctors and medical practices paid more than $25,000, six were psychiatrists. But drug-payment recipients ranged across all specialties, including pediatricians, neurologists, urologists, endocrinologists and others. More than two dozen physicians took payments from two or more drug companies.
The highest payment from one company was $75,000; the average payment, $11,702
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