A new law in Vermont requires drug companies to publicly disclose all bribes to doctors.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/busin ... ml?_r=1&em
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In practice, the new law would let Vermonters learn each year which doctors have been paid, and how much, by the makers of the brand-name drugs for which they wrote prescriptions — or how much money certain surgeons have received from the makers of the stents, pacemakers, artificial knees and such that the doctors implanted.
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The law also closes a loophole in previous regulations that had allowed companies to keep specific expenses private by claiming them as trade secrets.
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The Vermont attorney general’s report, compiled before passage of the law, provides only aggregate data because companies declared 83 percent of the payments to be trade secrets.
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Of Vermont’s 4,573 licensed health practitioners, almost half received remuneration, including payments for lectures, meals or lodging from pharmaceutical companies in the 2008 fiscal year, the report said.
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A psychiatrist received about $112,000, the highest amount spent on one person.
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20 May 2009, 9:07 am
