US medical industry urged to reassess paid events amid doctor kickback concerns

Why are these “kickbacks” legal?

(From The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists)

For six years, federal authorities say, Salix rewarded “high-prescribing” Xifaxan doctors with fancy dinners, handsome speaking fees and getaways to luxury hotels. Physicians also collected checks for touting the off-label benefits of the drug to their peers. One former Salix marketer later said her superiors described the purpose of certain speaker programs as “taking care of” cooperative physicians.

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