Keyword: Physician Payment Sunshine Act
In Germany, a nonprofit is trying disclosure based on the honor system.
Another year of Sunshine Act data means another year's worth of dollar figures showing industry watchers just which drug brands are shelling out the most on payments to doctors.
The 21st Century Cures Act seeks to ease the path to FDA approval, but if Sen. Elizabeth Warren gets her way, the long-awaited bill could stall again.
The sun is finally shining on drug company payments to doctors in Europe, and payment information has begun to trickle out.
Drug and device makers handed over almost $6.5 billion to doctors and medical institutions in 2015, according to the latest Open Payments data, adding more stats for the debate over pharma's relationships with doctors.
JAMA lit a fuse in pharma last week with a study associating free meals for doctors with increases in branded prescriptions. Here's one marketing expert's take on that controversial conclusion.
A new JAMA study offers more evidence that doctors who collect more pharma payments prescribe more branded meds. Now, it's statin scripts at center: The higher the dollar amount, the higher the rate of brand scripts, rather than cheap generics.
