In bed with big pharma: Corruption fears
as report finds US doctors received record
$12bn in pharma payments in past decade
Daily Mail,
by
Caitlin Tilley
Original Article
Posted By: OhioNick,
4/3/2024 4:41:27 PM
Almost six in ten doctors in the US received more than $12 billion in payments from pharma firms in the past decade, an analysis has revealed.
A study by researchers at Yale University found that 57 percent of doctors earned the huge sums from manufacturers in relation to medical drugs or devices between 2013 and 2022.
Most of the money was for consulting services or fees for things such as serving as a speaker at a venue, but the physicians also received large amounts of money for food and beverages and gifts.
Orthopedic surgeons were found to receive the largest total sum of payments, at $1.36bn.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
red1066 4/3/2024 5:08:17 PM (No. 1692004)
This has been true for quite a long time. Surgeons however are not allowed to receive anything from companies that manufacture or sell surgical instruments. There are fines for such activity for the companies caught trying to do this.
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Catherine 4/3/2024 5:08:17 PM (No. 1692005)
The medical community is not good anymore. I have tried to find a good primary care dr for a couple of years now. So far I haven't found one. Oh if I go to them, they will refill my meds but when I had both sciatic nerves, one in each leg, pinched last summer, all I got was a five day course of prednisone. I could only take three days because of side effects. Then nothing. Horrible pain, no treatment. And the dr before her got angry with me, yes angry, because I didn't use a card he gave me to get a lower price on a medication. Medicare charged me less than his card. He was furious when he found out.
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Glad to know that the program I worked on decades ago for one of the biggest pharma companies is alive and well in spite of congress supposedly shutting it down and fining big pharma about 25 years ago. //sarcasm// Yes I did work on such a program as a programmer and once I figured out the end game, I left for another consulting gig.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
seamusm 4/3/2024 5:57:37 PM (No. 1692044)
Before I retired, I was one of those doctors. Most of that was legitimate payment for clinical research where patients HAD to sign an Informed Consent and the research was honest and sometimes actually failed. Years ago, I also received money for 'educational' talks to providers but when the pharma lawyers started dictating WHAT I could say - I quit giving such obvious endorsements. I admit, it was nice income but everyone in attendance knew when what I was saying was plain advertising rather than educational.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 4/3/2024 6:20:22 PM (No. 1692064)
Big Pharma commercials have replaced Big Tobacco commercials. Where there is money involved there is greed. Big Pharma is bigly greedy. If everyone in the world is popping pills or having treatments, the $$$ keep flowing into their coffers.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
john56 4/3/2024 6:21:29 PM (No. 1692065)
I spent over 20 years in pharmaceutical sales and there were times in the late 90s and early 2000s where some companies were crazy with incentives for physicians ... dinners (usually with a speaker on an honorarium) or promotions where if the doctor showed up at a certain gas station or hardware store at a certain time, a pharm rep (usually a cute ex-cheerleader type) would fill up his gas tank or give him a gift card to the store for listening to their pitch.
The industry "cleaned up" its act so much that it became illegal, immoral or fattening to give a doctor or a nurse a stinkin' ink pen or pad of paper.
But it sounds like the doctors are also in the "payoff" routine. Last weekend, a doctor friend of mine told me of a website that where specialists in his field are offering payments which for practical purposes are referral fees to other healthcare professionals for referring patients to them for extremely profitable procedures, especially if these procedures can be "upsold" to include non-reimburseable by insurance products.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/3/2024 6:22:53 PM (No. 1692068)
Todays Doctors all belong to some group.
The group pays for their mal practice insurance their nurses, their receptionist and their rent.
The Doctor gets a salary they work 9 to 5. Except on Wednesday when they all play golf.
If you are admitted to a hospital your Primary never comes to see you. You are presented as a gift to whatever Doctor the hospital assigns you to. Oh! but when you leave you are told to go check with your primary.
You call your primary and you get the computer. That tells you that if you feel bad you should go to the hospital or urgent care. Urgent care treats you and then they tell you to go see your primary. So you call your primary and get an appointment in two weeks, Then you get a text message from a computer telling you that your primary doesn't want to see you at the office but wants you to call them on your smart phone for a "virtual" appointment.
This is todays medical care in America.
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