Dollars for Docs
~ KVUE Defenders- Dollars for Doctors – KVUE – YouTube
~ Last year alone, more than 1 million doctors received payment from pharmaceutical or medical device companies. “
- ~ About the Dollars for Docs Data — ProPublica
- ~ Big pharma paid $151M to doctors, hospitals in 2017-18, but we don’t know who got paid or why – Canada – Globalnews.ca
- ~ Database shows $3.5 billion in industry ties to doctors, hospitals – Los Angeles Times
- ~ Doctors’ Lucrative Industry Ties – The New York Times
- ~ Dollars for Docs Mints a Millionaire — ProPublica
- ~ Dollars for Docs – ProPublica (OLD Archive)
- ~ Dollars for Docs- Who’s On Pharma’s Top-Paid List? — ProPublica
- ~ Financial Ties Between Doctors and Health Care Firms Are Detailed – The New York Times
- ~ Government reveals $3.5 billion in industry ties to doctors, hospitals – Los Angeles Times
- ~ How Much Money Does Your Doctor Get From Medical Companies? – Time
- ~ Industry Payments To Doctors Are Ingrained, Federal Data Show – Shots – Health News – NPR
- ~ Payments Show Range of Doctors’ Ties With Industry – WSJ
- ~ What Is Your Doctor Getting Paid? – The Pew Charitable Trusts
- ~ What We’ve Learned From Four Years of Diving Into Dollars for Docs — ProPublica
- ~ Your doctor may be getting paid by medical companies. Here’s how to find out Last year alone, more than 1 million doctors received payment from pharmaceutical or medical device companies. But is that something that should concern you? – 12news.com
- ~ A National Survey of Physician–Industry Relationships – NEJM
- ~ Physician-Industry Interactions: Persuasion and Welfare – NBER
- ~ Physician-Industry Interactions: Persuasion and Welfare – Mackin Institute – PDF
- ~ Recent survey provides updated national estimate of doctors’ financial ties to industry — ScienceDaily
Conflict of Interest – Undisclosed Ties to Industry
- ~ Doctors’ Conflicting Interests Can Cost Money and Lives, and Hinder Medical Discoveries – ABC News
- ~ Medicine and Conflicts – The New York Times
- ~ Money and Medicine- Lucrative Relationships Not Always Disclosed – ABC News
- ~ British Doctors Lack Transparency Where Big Pharma Pays – Bloomberg
- ~ Could Doctors’ Drug Industry Ties Affect Your Care? – ABC News
- ~ Doctors Like to Think Big Pharma Doesn’t Sway Them. It Does. Self-interest is so ingrained that people don’t even notice they’re looking out for No. 1. Unfortunately in medicine, that turns patients into second or third priorities – Bloomberg
- ~ Drug firms’ payments to doctors raise ethical concerns for many – The Denver Post
- ~ Payments to Doctors by Pharmaceutical Companies Raise Issues of Conflicts – The New York Times
- ~ Pharmaceutical Industry Payouts Lead to Conflict of Interest – Natural Society
- ~ Should doctors be paid by pharmaceutical companies to promote their drugs? – PBS NewsHour
- ~ Corruption: medicine’s dirty open secret – The BMJ
- ~ Financial Conflicts of Interest in Medicine (2014) – University of California at San Diego – PDF
Free Lunch For Doctors Can Cost Patients Their Life
~ ‘Dangerous Practice’- New Report Shows Philly-Area Doctors Received $1.5 Million In Free Lunches From Pharma Companies – CBS3 Philly – VIDEO
~ Freebies to doctors inflate drug costs, study says – Today – VIDEO
- ~ A Cheap Lunch From a Pharma Rep Can Influence Doctors’ Prescriptions – Fortune
- ~ After free lunch from drug firms, doctors increase prescriptions – Cornell Chronicle
- ~ Burgers, BBQ, and Mexican: What drug sales reps order for lunch with docs – STAT
- ~ ‘Dangerous Practice’- New Report Shows Philly-Area Doctors Received $1.5 Million In Free Lunches From Pharma Companies – CBS3 Philly
- ~ Do Free Drug Rep Lunches Sway Doctors? See What Physicians Say – Medscape
- ~ Doctors Dine on Drug Companies’ Dime — ProPublica
- ~ Doctors Fall for Free Lunches From Drug Companies, Study Shows – NBC News
- ~ Doctors given meals by drug makers prescribed more of their pills – STAT
- ~ Doctors Who Prescribed Salix Drugs Ate Well – Bloomberg
- ~ No Free Lunch for Doctors, Brought to You By Jersey’s AG – WSJ
- ~ When drug firms give doctors free lunches, costlier prescriptions may result – The Washington Post
- ~ Who’s paying for lunch? Here’s exactly how drug companies wine and dine our doctors – The Conversation
- ~ Why Doctors and Drug Companies Shouldn’t Be Friends: Free Meals From Drug Companies Influence Doctor Prescribing – Time
- ~ No more free lunches – The BMJ
- ~ No more free lunches – The BMJ – Sci-Hub.se – PDF
- ~ Pharmaceutical Industry–Sponsored Meals and Physician Prescribing Patterns for Medicare Beneficiaries – Geriatrics – JAMA Network
- ~ Prescription-Drug Coupons — No Such Thing as a Free Lunch – NEJM
- ~ Prescription-Drug Coupons — No Such Thing as a Free Lunch – New England Journal of Medicine – Sci-Hub – PDF
- ~ REPORT ON PHYSICIAN COMPENSATION ARRANGEMENTS – NJ AG – PDF
- ~ The effects of pharmaceutical firm enticements on physician prescribing patterns. There’s no such thing as a free lunch – PubMed
- ~ The Effects of Pharmaceutical Firm Enticements on Physician Prescribing Patterns. There’s no such thing as a free lunch – Sci-Hub – PDF
- ~ Who pays for the pizza? Redefining the relationships between doctors and drug companies. 1- Entanglement – NCBI
Gifts
- ~ Big Pharma gives your doctor gifts. Then your doctor gives you Big Pharma’s drugs. – The Washington Post
- ~ Institute of Medicine Calls for Doctors to Stop Taking Gifts From Drug Makers – The New York Times
- ~ Survey reveals how many doctors receive money, gifts from drugmakers – CBS News
Can doctors accept gifts of gratitude from patients they have successfully treated? NO! That’s unethical!!!
“Educational” Seminars
- ~ Critics Assail J&J’s Sponsorship Of High-Profile Physician Conference Exploring Conflict Of Interests – Kaiser Health News
- ~ Health care event about conflicts of interest has conflict itself, critics say – STAT
- ~ Pharmaceutical firms paid to attend meetings of panel that advises FDA, e-mails show – The Washington Post
- ~ Doctors’ education: the invisible influence of drug company sponsorship – The BMJ – Sci-Hub.se – PDF
- ~ Pharmaceutical Industry’s visible influence on doctor’s education: No free lunch – The BMJ
Strategically Bribing Key “Experts” and Medical Influencers
~ Pharmacy companies pay doctors to lecture, teach and do research – YouTube
~ Keiser Report: Sham Speaking Events Laundering Kickbacks (E1333) – YouTube
- ~ 9 of 19 experts on pain panel tied to drug companies – Milwaukee journal Sentinel
- ~ As social media ‘influencers,’ patients are getting a voice. And pharma is ready to pay up – STAT
- ~ Big Pharma Quietly Enlists Leading Professors to Justify $1,000-Per-Day Drugs — ProPublica
- ~ Doc: Doctors promoting drugs is not off-limits – Detroit News
- ~ Dr. Oz made $1.17 million off a hemorrhoid treatment he promoted in his column – Vox
- ~ Government watchdog warns about paid physician speeches touting drugs and medical devices – Science-Based Medicine
- ~ Influential doctors aren’t disclosing their drug company ties – The Conversation
- ~ Patient Influencers Paid By Pharmaceutical Companies Should Be Required To Disclose Industry Ties – Health Affairs
- ~ Physicians Fail to Disclose Conflicts of Interest on Social Media – Johns Hopkins Medicine
- ~ The Secret Lives of Big Pharma’s ‘Thought Leaders’ – Chronicle
- ~ Top Psychiatrist Didn’t Report Drug Makers’ Pay – The New York Times
- ~ University of Maryland Medical System paid $115M to companies tied to 27 board members, state review reveals – Baltimore Sun
- ~ University of Maryland Medical System pays members of volunteer board hundreds of thousands in business deals – Baltimore Sun
- ~ Doctors who write guidelines often have ties to the drug industry – NCBI
- ~ Industry-Sponsored Speaker Programs—End of the Line? – Law and Medicine – JAMA Network
- ~ Key Opinion Leaders and the Corruption of Medical Knowledge: What the Sunshine Act Will and Won’t Cast Light On – Sergio Sismondo – Journal of Law, Medicine, Ethics – PDF
- ~ Special Fraud Alert: Speaker Programs – Department of Health and Human Services – OIG – PDF
Drug Companies Bribing the FDA
- ~ FDA Policy- Big Pharma Firms Pay To Play – Mint Press News
- ~ Reports: Emails show alleged pay-to-play between drug companies, FDA – CBS News
Videos – Doctors Taking Bribes to Prescribe
~ Big Pharma to Stop Bribing Doctors? – Light at the End of the Tunnel – YouTube
Mainstream News – Doctors Taking Bribes to Prescribe
- ~ Big-Name Drug Companies Bribed Doctors To Prescribe Drugs – Off The Grid News
- ~ Drug Giant Faced a Reckoning as China Took Aim at Bribery – The New York Times
- ~ Feds say 5 NYC doctors took bribes from drug maker to prescribe opioid. Five Manhattan doctors are accused of taking $800,000 in “speaker fees,” plus gifts like casino and strip club outings, to prescribe the Insys drug Subsys, a powerful opioid – NBC News
- ~ Is Industry Bribing Your Physician? – MedPage Today
- ~ It was his dream job. He never thought he’d be bribing doctors and wearing a wire for the feds – NBC News
- ~ Lawsuits Say Pharma Illegally Paid Doctors to Push Their Drugs — ProPublica
- ~ Medical malpractice- The alarming number of doctors busted for bribery – nj.com
- ~ New York Doctor Charged With Taking Bribes In Test-Referral Scheme With New Jersey Clinical Lab – USAO-NJ – Department of Justice
- ~ N.J. doctor took $200K in bribes, indictment says – nj.com
- ~ N.Y. doctor admits role in bribe-for-blood scheme – nj.com
- ~ Taking bribes to feed gambling habit drives physician to prison – nj.com
- ~ Whistleblowers: Company at heart of 97,000% drug price hike bribed doctors to boost sales – CNN
Drug Companies Paying off Doctors
~ Big pharma paying big bucks to doctors, hospitals – Global News Canada – VIDEO
~ Doctors and Drug Companies – YouTube
~ Doctors Net Billions From Drug Firms – WSJ – VIDEO
~ Does your doctor get money from drug companies? – YouTube
~ Dollars for Doctors: Are Pharmaceutical Companies Paying Your Doctor? – YouTube
~ Drug Companies Are Paying Doctors HOW Much!? – YouTube
~ Drug Companies Paying Doctors Billions – YouTube
~ How much money do Triad doctors receive from drug companies? – YouTube
~ People & Power Drug Money – YouTube
~ SPECIAL REPORT- Doctors and Drugs – YouTube
~ Your Doctor Probably Gets Paid By A Drug Company – YouTube
- ~ 5 shady ways the drug industry is influencing your doctor – Salon.com
- ~ Are drug firms paying your doctor? Illinois doctors accepted $74.1M in industry payments last year – Chicago Tribune
- ~ Big Pharma Paid 700 Doctors Over A Million Bucks Each. Tell Us Again How Single-Payer Is Too Pricey? – Wonkette
- ~ Detailing Financial Links of Doctors and Drug Makers – The New York Times
- ~ Docs on Pharma Payroll Have Blemished Records, Limited Credentials — ProPublica
- ~ Doctors and drug companies – Let the sunshine in – The Economist
- ~ Doctors Net Billions From Drug Firms – WSJ
- ~ Doctors paid millions to shill for Big Pharma – Salon.com
- ~ Doctors Often Receive Payments From Drug Companies – NPR
- ~ Doctors Reap Millions for Anemia Drugs – The New York Times
- ~ Does Pharma Money Mix With Cash Receptors in Your Doctor’s Wallet? – WSJ
- ~ Does your doctor have ties to big pharma- How you’ll be able to find out – CBS News
- ~ Drug Companies & Doctors- A Story of Corruption – by Marcia Angell – The New York Review of Books
- ~ Drug companies quietly funnel funds to doctors – The Boston Globe
- ~ Drug-makers give health groups millions – News.Com.Au
- ~ How Big Pharma uses psychology on doctors to do its bidding – The Palm Beach Post
- ~ How drug reps influence doctors – Salon.com
- ~ How Much Are Drug Companies Paying Your Doctor? – Scientific American
- ~ How Much Money Has Your Doctor Received From Drug Companies? — ProPublica
- ~ How To Find Out If Your Doctor Is Being Paid By Pharmaceutical Companies – Forbes
- ~ Is Big Pharma Addicted To Fraud? – Forbes
- ~ Is Your Doctor on Big Pharma’s Dole? – HuffPost
- ~ MEDICAL MARKETING — Treatment by Incentive; As Doctor Writes Prescription, Drug Company Writes a Check – The New York Times
- ~ Medicare spent $2 billion for one drug as the manufacturer paid doctors millions – CNN
- ~ Most Doctors Have Financial Relationships With Pharma – Newsweek
- ~ Pay Dirt: Hundreds of Doctors Earned Big Money from Drug Companies – ABC News
- ~ Pfizer Paid Doctors, Hospitals $35 Million – WSJ
- ~ Spin Doctored: How drug companies keep tabs on physicians.- Slate
- ~ The cozy relationship between doctors and drugmakers is costing Americans billions – Washington Examiner
Drug Companies Bribing Doctors Influences the Prescriptions Patients Recieve
~ Drug Company Payments Influencing Doctors Decisions – YouTube
- ~ Association of Pharmaceutical Industry Marketing of Opioid Products to Physicians With Subsequent Opioid Prescribing – JAMA Network
- ~ Association between payments from manufacturers of pharmaceuticals to physicians and regional prescribing- cross sectional ecological study – BMJ
- ~ Drug Firms’ Payments and Physicians’ Prescribing Behavior in Medicare Part D – National Bureau of Economic Research – PDF
- ~ Matching Industry Payments to Medicare Prescribing Patterns: An Analysis Ryann Grochowski Jones and Charles Ornstein ProPublica March 2016 – PDF
- ~ Narrative Review: The Promotion of Gabapentin – An Analysis of Internal Industry Documents – Annals of Internal Medicine
- ~ Pharmaceutical payments to physicians may increase prescribing for opioids – Nguyen – 2019 – Addiction – Wiley Online Library
- ~ Pharmaceutical payments to physicians may increase prescribing for opioids. Addiction – Sci-Hub – PDF
Doctors Getting Kickbacks
~ Doctor to pay back $2.8 million in kickbacks – YouTube
- ~ Doctors rarely pay penalties in kickback cases – The Denver Post
- ~ Feds accuse San Antonio doctor of participating in kickback scheme that cost government millions – San Antonio Express-News
- ~ Financial kickbacks from industry to physicians are a bad idea for patients – TheHill
- ~ Here Is Proof That Doctors Prescribe Bogus Surgeries, Unnecessary Tests And Take Kickbacks – India Times
- ~ Judge sentences ‘Doctors on the Go’ owner to prison Denis Mikhlin was sentenced to nine years in prison and ordered to pay restitution for fraud and receiving kickbacks – ksdk.com
- ~ NJ doctors arrested in alleged kickback scheme – Fox News
- ~ PART V- Doctors Indicted – Investigate TV
- ~ Bloomington Pain Management Doctor Indicted for Accepting Kickbacks as Part of Large-Scale Health Care Fraud Scheme — FBI
- ~ Teva pays $54m to settle claims it paid doctors kickbacks to prescribe its drugs – The BMJ
- ~ Teva pays $54m to settle claims it paid doctors kickbacks to prescribe its drugs – The BMJ – Sci-Hub – PDF
- ~ Three Physicians and Five Marketers Charged for Violations to Federal Anti-Kickback Statutes – USAO-NDOK – Department of Justice
Doctors Get Kickbacks to Prescribe Drugs
~ Billings doctor indicted in drug-kickback scheme on Montana reservation – YouTube
~ California insurance department sues Abbvie over alleged kickbacks – YouTube
~ Drug Kickbacks- Caught on camera – The Fifth Estate – YouTube
~ J&J gave doctors kickbacks for prescribing their drugs – YouTube
~ When Doctors Take ‘Kickbacks’ from Big Pharma – YouTube
- ~ Bad medicine: Suit claims ‘kickback’ scheme at Sanofi – CNBC
- ~ Billings doctor pleads guilty to prescription-drug kickback scheme on Montana reservation – KTVQ 2
- ~ California lawsuit accuses Bristol-Myers Squibb of fraud, kickbacks – Los Angeles Times
- ~ Doctors get rich from kickbacks from drug maker – WTXL Tallahassee
- ~ Doctors rarely face consequences for drug kickbacks – CCHR International
- ~ Drug maker accused of illegal kickbacks to pay NC nearly $282,000, AG Cooper announces – The Daily News – Jacksonville
- ~ Ex-IHS doctor from Billings admits taking kickbacks from prescription drug sales – billingsgazette.com
- ~ Insurance Commissioner Alleges Pharma Co. Induces Doctors To Prescribe Drug Through Illegal Kickbacks – SF Gate
- ~ Is Your Doctor Getting Drug Kickbacks? – Healthy Home Economist
- ~ Kickbacks, cartels and chatrooms: how unscrupulous drug firms woo the public – The Guardian
- ~ Mayfield doctor agrees to cooperate with feds in probe into neurological drug’s marketing – cleveland.com
- ~ NJ to get $425K in nationwide settlement involving prescription drug kickbacks – nj.com
- ~ Our Patent System Incentivizes Drug Companies To Pay Doctors Kickbacks – Techdirt
- ~ Pharma Biggie Hit With $125M Penalty For Illegal Kickbacks To Doctors, Falsified Insurance Forms – Consumerist
- ~ Pharmaceutical Fraud- What are Kickback Schemes? – i-Sight
- ~ South Florida men accused of pushing prescription drugs for kickbacks – South Florida Sun-Sentinel
- ~ Teva forks over $54M to settle Copaxone, Azilect kickbacks suit – FiercePharma
- ~ Valeant pays $54 million to settle U.S. kickback, fraud claims – Reuters
- ~ Whistleblowers allege drug kickbacks for local doctors – wthr.com
Doctors Get Kickbacks to Prescribe Opioids
~ Doctors Accused of Taking Kickbacks – YouTube
~ Doctor in Opioid Kickback Scheme Sentenced to Prison – YouTube
~ News Wrap- Purdue Pharma pleads guilty to federal charges – YouTube
~ NH physician assistant convicted of taking kickbacks for prescribing powerful opioid – YouTube
~ Pharmaceutical companies promoting opioids pay big bucks to local doctors – YouTube
~ Physician assistant on trial for allegedly taking prescription kickbacks – YouTube
~ Purdue Pharma pleads guilty to felony charges, will pay $8 billion – YouTube
~ Study: Doctors Who Prescribe More Opioids Make More Money – YouTube
- ~ 5 Doctors Are Charged With Taking Kickbacks for Fentanyl Prescriptions – The New York Times
- ~ 5 doctors indicted for overprescribing opioids for kickbacks – FOX 8
- ~ 5 doctors indicted for overprescribing opioids for kickbacks – WTXL Tallahassee
- ~ 5 NYC doctors charged with taking kickbacks for fentanyl prescriptions – CBS News
- ~ Health Care Software Firm Fined $145M In Opioid Scheme With Drug Companies – NPR
- ~ Doctor accused of overprescribing opioids in return for kickback money from drug company – Local News 8
- ~ Doctor admits he took kickbacks to prescribe fentanyl spray – Breitbart
- ~ Doctor admits taking kickbacks for prescribing risky drug – Chicago Tribune
- ~ Doctors get rich from controversial drug maker as patients become addicts – KOLD 13
- ~ Drugmaker pushed opioid cancer drug on patients with neck pain: state lawsuit – Chicago Tribune
- ~ Feds say Colorado doc got paid 6 figures to overprescribe powerful fentanyl spray meant for cancer patients – 9news.com
- ~ Fentanyl kickback scheme busted, doctors charged for accepting kickbacks – Blasting News
- ~ Manhattan Doctor Pleads Guilty To Accepting Bribes And Kickbacks From Pharmaceutical Company In Exchange For Prescribing Fentanyl Drug – US DOJ
- ~ New Jersey/Pennsylvania Doctor Indicted For Accepting Bribes And Kickbacks From A Pharmaceutical Company In Exchange For Prescribing Powerful Fentanyl Drug – US DOJ
- ~ Practice Fusion fined $145 million for kickback scheme that pushed doctors to prescribe opioids, feds say – The Washington Post
- ~ Regulators: Illinois doctor’s pill mill supplied 11 states – FOX 32
- ~ Silicon Valley health-tech start-up took kickbacks to push doctors to prescribe opioids, DOJ finds – CNBC
Novartis Kickback Settlement
~ Drug Company Kickbacks to Doctors and Pharmacists – YouTube
~ Novartis will pay $729 million in U.S. kickback charges – YouTube
- ~ Acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces $678 Million Settlement Of Fraud Lawsuit Against Novartis Pharmaceuticals For Operating Sham Speaker Programs Through Which It Paid Over $100 Million To Doctors To Unlawfully Induce Them To Prescribe Novartis Drugs – US Department of Justice
- ~ Drug firm whistleblower wore wire to get evidence of cash bribes to doctors that led to $700m Novartis fine – and now stands to make $75m himself as reward – Daily Mail Online
- ~ Families Hoping For Justice From Prescription Bribes Trial – WBUR News
- ~ It Paid Doctors Kickbacks. Now, Novartis Will Pay a $678 Million Settlement. – The New York Times
- ~ Lawsuit- Pharmaceutical company gave kickbacks to Florida doctors – Tampa Bay Times
- ~ Novartis agrees to $642m US settlement over kickbacks – The Frontier Post
- ~ Novartis Agrees to Pay Over $51 Million to Resolve Allegations that It Paid Kickbacks Through Co-Pay Foundations – USAO-MA
- ~ Novartis gave doctors thousands to prescribe pills, feds allege – Newsday
- ~ Novartis ordered to face U.S. lawsuit over doctor kickbacks – Reuters
- ~ Novartis pays $729 million to settle U.S. kickback charges – Reuters
- ~ Novartis Pays $678 Million for Kickbacks to Doctors – The Vaccine Reaction
- ~ Novartis Pays Over $700 Million To Settle US Kickbacks Case – International Business Times
- ~ Novartis pays over $700m to settle US kickbacks case – Medical Xpress
- ~ Novartis reaches $678 million settlement of U.S. fraud lawsuit – CNBC
- ~ Novartis to Pay $678 Million to Settle Doctor-Bribe Claims – Bloomberg
- ~ Novartis to Pay $678M Over Illegal Kickbacks Involving Sham Doctor Events – Whistleblower News Review
- ~ Novartis to Settle Kickback Claims for $390M – Courthouse News Service
- ~ Novartis, Units Admit Violating Bribery Law Bashed by Trump – Bloomberg
- ~ Opioid maker’s former executives ‘put profit over people,’ prosecutor says – The Boston Globe
- ~ Pay to Prescribe? Two Dozen Doctors Named in Novartis Kickback Case — ProPublica
- ~ Pharmaceutical Giant Novartis to Pay Government $729m for Giving Doctors, Patients Kickbacks – Legal Reader
- ~ U.S. Files Suit Accusing Novartis of Paying Kickbacks to Doctors – Fox Business
- ~ US: Novartis agrees to $642 million settlement over kickbacks – Americas – Gulf News
- ~ With new settlement, Novartis has shelled out $1.3B for kickbacks, bribery and price fixing this year – FiercePharma
- ~ Wire-Wearing Novartis Whistle-Blower Gets $109 Million Award – Bloomberg
Hospitals Paying Kickbacks
Medical Labs Paying Kickbacks
~ Aetna accused Bay Area Regional Medical Center of taking kickbacks – YouTube
~ Eye on Oversight- Kickbacks to Physicians – YouTube
Pharmacies Paying Kickbacks
~ Prescription Drugs – The Costco Kickbacks – The Fifth Estate – YouTube
- ~ Costco fined $7.2M for accepting illegal kickbacks – CBC News
- ~ Costco pharmacy directors fined $20,000 after admitting to $1.2-million drug kickback scheme – The Star
- ~ Largest nursing home pharmacy pays $28 million to settle kickback charges – STAT
Medical Device Companies – Kickbacks and Payoffs
~ Bayer Pharma, Fetal Deaths, and Illegal Kickbacks – YouTube
- ~ Drug and device makers paid teaching hospitals $832 million in 2018, creating potential for conflicts of interest – STAT
- ~ Drug and Medical Device Corporations Bribe Doctors and Hospitals $3.5 Billion To Get Customers – CSGlobe
- ~ Medtronic mired in controversy over allegations of illegal kickbacks – thesunchronicle.com
- ~ Medical Device Company Will Pay $646 Million For Making Illegal Payments To Doctors And Hospitals In United States And Latin America – US DOJ
- ~ Medical device firms’ payments to doctors outstrip those from pharma – STAT
- ~ Medtronic to Report Pay to Doctors Who Get $5,000 Annually – WSJ
- ~ Part I: Medical device payments to doctors draw scrutiny – StarTribune.com
- ~ Part II: For companies courting surgeons, how far is too far? – StarTribune.com
- ~ Profits from medical devices used to bribe doctors? – India News – Times of India
- ~ Olympus to pay $646M in fines to settle bribery, kickback claims – nj.com
- ~ SEC Charges Medical Device Company Biomet with Foreign Bribery – SEC.gov
- ~ U.S. government examining doctor kickbacks for medical devices – The New York Times
Insys Bribing Doctors to Prescribe Fentynal to Kids, an Deadly Opioid Stronger than Heroin
~ Addicted to Profit? – NBC News – VIDEO
~ Drug company sales officials bribed doctors to prescribe opioid, federal indictment says – NBC News – VIDEO
~ Drug company whistleblower bribed doctors, wore a wire for the feds – NBC News – VIDEO
~ Inside alleged scheme Insys Therapeutics used to sell deadly opioid: Part 1 – YouTube
Insys – John Kapoor – Billionaire CEO Arrested in Nation Wide Bribery Scam
~ Billionaire Doctor Accused of Fueling Drug Addiction – Crime Watch Daily – YouTube
~ CEO busted for bribing MDs – YouTube
~ Drug company executives face prison time for role in opioid epidemic – YouTube
~ Drug company’s billionaire ex-CEO arrested in nationwide bribery scam Video – ABC News – VIDEO
~ Insys founder and executives accused of paying bribes, kickbacks to doctors – NBC News – VIDEO
~ Insys Therapeutics founder on trial for drug bribery scheme – YouTube
~ Valley opioid maker arrested for bribing doctors – YouTube
- ~ A big pharma billionaire was arrested for opioid-pushing bribes – Fast Company
- ~ Big Pharma Exec Gets 3 Years In Opioid Bribery Scheme – Boston, MA Patch
- ~ Big Pharma Execs Bribed Doctors to Prescribe More Opioids Amid National Crisis, Feds Say – Newsweek
- ~ Big Pharma Mogul Arrested For Bribing Doctors To Prescribe Fentanyl – The Daily Caller
- ~ Billionaire Charged With Bribing Doctors to Prescribe Opioids – NBC News
- ~ Billionaire drug company founder charged with bribing doctors to prescribe opioids – Chicago Tribune
- ~ Billionaire Drug Maker Charged With Pushing Powerful Opioid – NBC New York
- ~ Billionaire founder of opioid firm guilty of bribing doctors to prescribe drug – The Guardian
- ~ Ex-Big Pharma CEO Pleads Guilty to Paying Doctors to Prescribe Opioids – Neon Nettle
- ~ Ex-pharmaceutical exec gets 5½ years for pushing opioid spray – NBC News
- ~ Families hoping for justice from prescription bribes trial – AP
- ~ How a Drug Company Pushed Opioids & Made Millions by Bribing Doctors & Committing Insurance Fraud – FRONTLINE – PBS
- ~ Insys founder John Kapoor sentenced for role in fraud, bribery scheme that contributed to opioid crisis – ABC News
- ~ Insys Therapeutics former executives found guilty in criminal opioid case – CNBC
- ~ Opioid Arrest- Insys Therapeutics founder indicted – Fox Business
- ~ Opioid maker Insys’s John Kapoor and other executives sentenced to prison – Vox.url
- ~ Opioid Trial- Insys Executive John Kapoor Guilty Of A Racketeering Conspiracy – NPR
- ~ Outrage of the Month- Doctors Accepting Bribes, Betraying Patients – Public Citizen
- ~ Pharmaceutical exec guilty of bribing doctors to push opioid – AP
- ~ U.S. drug company founder charged with bribing doctors to prescribe addictive opioid – CBC News
Insys – Strippers and Lap Dances Used to Bribe Doctors
~ Pharma execs used strip clubs, broke FDA laws to boost opioid sales – YouTube
~ Witness: Exec Gave Lap Dance to Doctor in Drug Bribes Scheme – NBC Boston – VIDEO
- ~ An Insys exec gave a doctor a LAP DANCE while persuading him to prescribe addictive fentanyl spray – Daily Mail Online
- ~ “Behave More Sexually-” How Big Pharma Used Strippers, Guns, and Cash to Push Opioids – Mother Jones
- ~ Drug company, Insys, hired ex-stripper to increase sales- witness – New York Post
- ~ Ex-Insys CEO Gets 30 Months in Prison for Opioid Fraud Role – Bloomberg
- ~ In first day of trial, former Insys sales rep describes high-pressure environment where rules were broken – The Boston Globe
- ~ Insys executive gave doctor lap dance while promoting drug, witness says – Reuters
- ~ Insys fentanyl scandal: Ex-Boca school counselor used exotic dancer, models to push fentanyl – The Palm Beach Post
- ~ Insys fentanyl scandal: Former exotic dancer from West Palm Beach sentenced – The Palm Beach Post
- ~ Judge hands ex-stripper turned-Insys sales boss shortest sentence in fentanyl scheme – Boston Herald
- ~ Insys Therapeutics exec Sunrise Lee gave lap dance to doctor in drug bribes scheme, witness says – CBS News
- ~ Money, dinners and strip clubs: How pharmaceutical executives bribed doctors to prescribe dangerous fentanyl drugs – 60 Minutes
- ~ Pharma exec Sunrise Lee gave a doctor a lap dance to get him to prescribe drugs, officials say – The Washington Post
- ~ ‘Pharmaceutical dystopia’: Former Insys exec decries sexist hiring in sentencing memo – FiercePharma
- ~ Stripper-turned-pharma exec gave a doctor a lap dance to get him to prescribe drugs, officials say – Boston.com
- ~ Stripper-turned-pharma exec gave a doctor a lap dance to get him to prescribe drugs – Mercury News
- ~ Stripper-Turned-Pharma Executive Gave Doctor Lap Dance to Get Prescription for Highly Addictive Drug – News 18
- ~ Two more former Insys executives get prison – The Boston Globe
- ~ Witness: Exec gave lap dance to doctor in drug bribes scheme – ABC News
- ~ Witness: Exec Gave Lap Dance to Doctor in Drug Bribes Scheme – NBC Boston
- ~ Witness: Exec gave lap dance to doctor in drug bribes scheme – AP
Insys – Rap Music Video Made to Promote Fentanyl to Kids
~ Subsys Rap Video Created by Insys Pharmaceuticals (More info in description) – YouTube
- ~ Insys executives used rap video to push sales of potentially lethal opioid – CBS News
- ~ Opioid maker used rap video to push powerful painkiller – AP
Insys – Fentanyl Spray is one of the MOST DANGEROUS RX DRUGS
~ Spray form of fentanyl is one of most dangerous Rx drugs – YouTube
Drug Companies Often Send “Sales Reps” to HAVE SEX WITH DOCTORS
- ~ Pfizer Sales Reps Discuss Having Sex With Doctors – CBS News
- ~ Pharma companies offer even women to bribe doctors: Study – Times of India
- ~ Strip clubs, bribes and blood money- The inside story of a $150M medical fraud – nj.com
- ~ Sports cars and strippers- Bribes led to lavish lifestyle for medical lab owner, authorities say – nj.com
Dollars for Docs – How Industry Dollars Reached Your Doctors – Propublica
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