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Dollars for Docs
How Industry Dollars Reach Your DoctorsBy Dan Nguyen, Charles Ornstein, and Tracy Weber, ProPublica
Drug companies have long kept secret details of the payments they make to doctors and other health professionals for promoting their drugs. But 12 companies have begun publicizing the information, some because of legal settlements. ProPublica pulled their disclosures into a database so patients can search for their doctor. Accepting payments isn’t necessarily wrong, but it can raise ethical issues. Read more about the data »
Updated Sept. 7, 2011.
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Piercing the Veil, More Drug Companies Reveal Payments to Doctors
by Charles Ornstein, Tracy Weber and Dan Nguyen, ProPublica
An update of ProPublica’s Dollars for Docs database includes more than $760 million in payments from 12 pharmaceutical companies to physicians and other health-care providers for consulting, speaking, research and expenses.
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KTRE ABC 9: East Texas docs paid by drug companies
San Rafael Patch: How Much Does Your Doctor Take from Drug Companies?
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NewsOK.com: Drug companies paid $6.3 million to Oklahoma's doctors for research, speaking
WABE News: Georgia's Medical Schools Take Steps to Limit Flow of Pharmaceutical Money
AARP Bulletin: Doctor Profits From Excessive Prescriptions to Medicaid Patients
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