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It's no secret that many doctors get paid by pharmaceutical companies to talk to other docs—about general conditions, research trends or specific drugs—or to provide expertise for company research. But what has long been undisclosed is the amount of money that these drugmakers were giving physicians for their time.
How much money was your doctor paid by a drug company?
Seeded on Fri Oct 22, 2010 7:41 PM EDT
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A new "Dollars for Docs" database, assembled in part by the investigative journalism organization ProPublica, now allows people to look up the names of their health provider to see how much they might have collected recently from some of the major pharmaceutical companies—a figure that might have been unclear even to the doctors themselves, Tracy Weber, a ProPublica reporter who worked on the project, said in a conference call on Thursday.
#1 - Fri Oct 22, 2010 7:41 PM EDTTop Earners
384 doctors and other health providers have received at least $100,000 from drug companies in 2009 and early 2010, according to our research. See the full list.
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