Healthy Skepticism Library item: 16485
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Publication type: news
Associated Press
Drug company paid $750,000 to doctors
The Chicago Tribune 2009 Sep 3
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-pharmaceuticals-d,0,4507259.story
Full text:
An analysis by a nonprofit group shows a drug company paid Minnesota doctors more than $750,000 in 2008.
The Pew Prescription Project reviewed documents filed with the state and found Forest Laboratories Inc. paid 62 doctors at least $1,000 each in speakers’ fees. Twenty-eight doctors received more than $10,000 each.
The analysis found Forest Laboratories paid a total of $754,127 to doctors in 2008. Minnesota is among several states that require drug companies to disclose payments to doctors.
Sen. Herb Kohl of Wisconsin and Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa have sponsored federal legislation to make payments to doctors by drug and medical device companies public. The requirement is part of the House version of the health care reform bill.
