Re: Question about kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies

I transcribe lectures on this very topic all the time. The days of giving
compensation for prescriptions are gone. It is illegal. There is a law
called the Antikickback Act and it prohibits this 100%. You are allowed as a
drug rep to bring in a pizza lunch or something of that nature, pens,
notepads, but it has to be of very small value. Free tickets to events and
things that they used to use are absolutely taboo. You are only allowed to
talk about on-label action of the medication. Et cetera, et cetera, et
cetera. In just the last few years they have really cracked down and being
my company holds the contract for all the big pharmaceutical companies'
conferences, I can promise you they are absolutely discouraging anything of
the sort and are tired of receiving the warning letters and fines from the
government for breaking these laws. J&J, AstraZeneca, Wyeth, GSK, Lilly,
etc. have all been in the hot seat and are now training on what can be said
and done and what can't.

Dani

"Anne Vasquez" <annevasquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:FaAwe.919$Ox3.136@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> My friend and I have had an ongoing argument about physicians being paid
> by pharmaceutical companies for prescribing their meds. Now, I'm not so
> naive to believe it doesn't happen, but is it legal? I don't think so,
> but my friend insists that it is. Information I'm finding on the net
> seems kind of ambiguous, and I'm beginning to wonder if my friend is at
> least partially right. Anybody know?
>
> Anne


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