Tucked away in the ACA is a little known website

[flamin lib]

http://www.cms.gov/OpenPayments/

It is a data base of doctors and any money/favors they receive from pharmaceutical companies.

I checked on mine and found that Astrazenica took him to lunch to the toon of $600 last year and he got $65 for a speaking fee. Not too much by most standards but the Az lunches were awfully frequent. I'll bet the rep is a cute twenty something blond too.

Knowledge is power, go get powerful!

[jberryhill]

1. Wow...

My doctor gets a free lunch, like, every day!

Dang!

[Skittles]

11. I was gonna say

it would appear that my doctor never has to pay for her lunch, although the many transactions are all modest amounts

[-Bernie-]

2. My doctor took $300

in payments, mostly lunch, it appears.. one medical text book worth $75 and a big meal worth $125.. wonder what that one is for...

[Fred Sanders]

4. Big meal from who? Although if that is all for a whole year, this is Little League stuff.

[-Bernie-]

5. Novo Nordisk

considering that about 80% of his patients are seeing him for diabetes, it's not suprising to see that name.

(Borderline diabetic myself)

[Fred Sanders]

3. Thank you for the mine of information. Someone smart with time is going to find lots of fun stuff.

the site says over 607,000 physicians are in compliance and their records of payments from corporations is available.

I sure as heck am looking up my friend's psychiatrists payments from drug corporations for all the drugs said unnamed (for now) psychiatrist insists are working, all evidence to the contrary.

[Adrahil]

6. I used to know a Nurse Practitioner who talked about this stuff....

Because some of the recent reforms in her state, they would get a paid trip to a "conference" in some tropical locale. The "conference" was often 3-4 days, with maybe 3-4 hours of seminars on the drugs, their studies, and dosage. It was, in fact, basically payola.

[TBF]

7. Cool - I looked up my 2 specialists

one had only a couple of small transactions totaling under $50, the other a handful of small transactions totaling under $200 (2014). I have a prescription from each of these specialists and they are relatively new drugs. Neither are made by companies that they dined with.

[JustAnotherGen]

8. kick and rec

Interesting little site. Totally not surprised that my Ob-Gyn and GP have what are probably fruit baskets delivered. They are both MDs with Allopathic and Osteopathic training. They don't 'mask' - they treat.

[underpants]

9. Excellent. Bookmarking

[Mojorabbit]

10. They used to send pizzas and take out to the office staff at my husband's office

Nothing that would have swayed his prescribing habits.

[Scuba]

12. "Eye candy" pharmacy reps show up at doctors offices with lunch every friggin' day. It's ...

... been going on for decades.


Interesting that all their reps look like Brad Pitt and Nicole Kidman.

[bigwillq]

13. Mine took $3,508.43.

[Hortensis]

14. Good info, Flamin. My PCP took a reported $20.05 food/beverage from busy little AstraZenica too.