Medication rip-off? - Page 5

VaBelle35 · ‎03-10-2010

It's not illegal for drug companies to provide lunch, I believe it has to be under $10 but doctors now have to report all meals, free samples, etc.

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Boehm Collector · ‎03-09-2010

@reiki604 wrote:
@software wrote:
Doctors don't get "kick-backs" but they sure to get perks, starting with the drug rep buying lunch for the entire staff once a week. Who knows where it ends.
Sorry, that was made illegal many years ago. Please fact check before you make untrue claims.

@reiki604 @software .. again, the physicians in my family NEVER had the pharmaceutical reps pay for their or their staffs' lunch or dinner.

tiny 2 · ‎03-10-2010

@Boehm Collector wrote:
@reiki604 wrote:
@software wrote:
Doctors don't get "kick-backs" but they sure to get perks, starting with the drug rep buying lunch for the entire staff once a week. Who knows where it ends.
Sorry, that was made illegal many years ago. Please fact check before you make untrue claims.
@reiki604 @software .. again, the physicians in my family NEVER had the pharmaceutical reps pay for their or their staffs' lunch or dinner.

@Boehm Collector, My husband is a physician and my nieces all married physicians and this never happens here.

wagirl · ‎03-09-2010

My dr is trying to get the ins co to pay for a drug called Repatha which works on cholesterol. It costs---$16,000 a year. This type of drug has been out for 10 years now--talk about a rip- off!!!

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

@Cakers3 wrote:
@151949 wrote:
@VaBelle35 First of all it is illegal and second of all - if they did have a lunch how would you know? It's not like they have it at the front desk? It would be somewhere like a conference room somewhere in the back out of patients sight.
@151949 Kickbacks are illegal. Payment to promote a drug is not.

The picture isn't so cut and dried.

And your source of this information is????

software · ‎06-08-2016

@151949 wrote:
@VaBelle35 First of all it is illegal and second of all - if they did have a lunch how would you know? It's not like they have it at the front desk? It would be somewhere like a conference room somewhere in the back out of patients sight.

I've been sick all my life, I have multiple diagnoses, I've had many many surgeries. I'm very high maintenance and due to the fact I am treated with a little more care than just your average patient, I've seen what's behing the curtain, so to speak

Yes, I have seen with my own eyes, the weekly lunch provided by the drug rep, delivered to a room behind a locked/secured door. Because I'm in the hospital or a doctor's office OFTEN, I see and hear things, directly and indirectly, that most people don't. The staff trusts me, because they see me all the time, they tell me things that probably shouldn't be told. And not just about the free lunch.

I also have medical professionals in my family and I've worked for doctors. But it's been years.

There's a loophole to every law, or if it has to be reported, so be it.