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Jun 22, 2017 · Eli Lilly Canada Inc. Gilead Sciences Canada, Inc. GSK Canada (GlaxoSmithKline) Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. (Roche Canada) Merck Canada Inc. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Canada Inc. Purdue Pharma Canada ...
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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 ...
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.
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%.
Jul 5, 2018 · In the past Purdue has paid doctors $2,000 a talk. Amgen Canada gave more than $6 million to health-care organizations, but we don’t know what these organizations did with that money. Novartis spent $350,000 on travel expenses so that doctors and possibly other professionals could go to international congresses and/or global stand-alone meetings.
Mar 6, 2024 · Canada’s disclosure guidelines don’t require pharma companies to disclose which doctors and organizations have received payments, or what they have done to earn the money. (Shutterstock)
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Mar 28, 2016 · As illustration of the money’s potential influence, a recent analysis of Sunshine Act data by the Propublica investigative-journalism group found that doctors who receive industry cash are more ...
