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From: zeta1961	10/13/2011 12:22:03 PM
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Dollars for DocsHow Industry Dollars Reach Your Doctor projects.propublica.org 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 » this site also provides a search function to plug in a physician's name and see how much she or he have received. But it's limited because only he big 12 are currently disclosing. I also learned here that the Affordable Care Act mandates that pharma disclose amounts above $10.00 given to doctors beginning in 2013.

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