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  1. Jun 22, 2017 · Ten of Canada's largest drug companies voluntarily released information about how much money they give physicians, posting the disclosures to their websites Tuesday. The participating companies ...

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    But a closer look at that committee is another example of the financial relationships that exist between Canada's doctors and the pharmaceutical industry. Almost everyone on the 22-member committee received money from Amgen or other pharmaceutical companies.* Only two received no funding. Yet according to the committee's own rules, no one with conf...

    But in the U.S. if a doctor receives more than $10 from a drug company, it must be disclosed, by law, under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, along with the details about why the payment was accepted. And it's searchable on a public database. Tomorrow, ten of Canada's largest pharmaceutical companies will begin a form of voluntary disclosure of ...

    But does simply disclosing payments eliminate the biases that could develop when doctors get money from drug companies? A study published last monthin the Journal of Clinical Oncology showed that U.S. oncologists receiving payments from particular companies prescribed that company's drug more often. Conflicts of interest "may influence oncologists ...

  2. Mar 27, 2024 · Over seven years (2016-2022), the 10 disclosing companies gave over $236 million to doctors and almost $213 million to organizations. Which doctors and organizations have received these payments, what have they done to earn the money? We don’t know, because the disclosures don’t name names or give the specific purpose of the payments.

  3. Feb 9, 2024 · Dix said during Friday's update more than 80 per cent of family physicians in the province have signed up for the new payment model. When the payment plan was announced in October 2022, the ...

  4. Nov 17, 2022 · The average cost per service was $73.45 for 2020–2021, a 2.9% increase over the previous year. The average cost per service was impacted by multiple factors, including FFS rate changes and shifts in the volume of services provided. For example, the volume of major assessments dropped by 24% while other assessments decreased by 5.9%.

  5. Jan 15, 2024 · This is in addition to the Program’s base funding of $27.3M per year. Budget 2023 outlined the Government of Canada’s plan to invest more than $200 billion over ten years to improve health care for Canadians, including $46.2 billion in new funding for provinces and territories, and a focus on efforts to support the health workforce.

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  7. Mar 6, 2024 · Research has shown that even a $20 meal is enough to influence prescribing behaviour. (Shutterstock) These disclosures can tell us a lot about how companies and health-care professionals interact.

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