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Monday, 20 April 2015
quote [ Sometimes, doctors and hospitals have financial relationships with health care manufacturing companies. These relationships can include money for research activities, gifts, speaking fees, meals, or travel... Open Payments is the federally run program that collects the information about these financial relationships and makes it available to you. ]
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ubie said @ 5:02am GMT on 20th April
I work in Biotech, but not on the sales side. We have to take a pretty intense training every year on ethics. I don't remember the exact time frame but at least 5 years ago this whole 'take them out for lunch' thing was officially frowned upon. If you're providing lunch it needs to be at their place, during a technical review of the product you are pitching and available to the entire plant. You can't take them anywhere and do the pitch there, you can be selective about who attends and even then (for my company at least) you have several layers of bureaucracy to go through to get approval to make sure we don't run afoul of any laws or regs.
Seriously, I do inventory management at a client's site and I can't even buy my point of contact a coffee. I had to run being in Logistics doughnut club by HR at the corporate level just so I could provide a dozen doughnuts once every 6 weeks and had to prove that every single person in logistics that were partaking of said donuts was involved and had to buy on a schedule so there was total parity and no quid pro quo.
ubie said @ 1:03am GMT on 20th April
I work in Biotech, but not on the sales side. We have to take a pretty intense training every year on ethics. I don't remember the exact time frame but at least 5 years ago this whole 'take them out for lunch' thing was officially frowned upon. If you're providing lunch it needs to be at their place, during a technical review of the product you are pitching and available to the entire plant. You can't take them anywhere and do the pitch there, you can't be selective about who attends and even then (for my company at least) you have several layers of bureaucracy to go through to get approval to make sure we don't run afoul of any laws or federal regs.
Seriously, I do inventory management at a client's site, don't even have access to pricing and I can't even buy my point of contact a coffee. I had to run being in Logistics doughnut club by HR at the corporate level just so I could provide a dozen doughnuts once every 6 weeks and had to prove that every single person in logistics that were partaking of said donuts was involved and had to buy on a schedule so there was total parity and no quid pro quo.
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ubie said @ 5:02am GMT on 20th April [Score:2 Interesting]
I work in Biotech, but not on the sales side. We have to take a pretty intense training every year on ethics. I don't remember the exact time frame but at least 5 years ago this whole 'take them out for lunch' thing was officially frowned upon. If you're providing lunch it needs to be at their place, during a technical review of the product you are pitching and available to the entire plant. You can't take them anywhere and do the pitch there, you can't be selective about who attends and even then (for my company at least) you have several layers of bureaucracy to go through to get approval to make sure we don't run afoul of any laws or federal regs.
Seriously, I do inventory management at a client's site, don't even have access to pricing and I can't even buy my point of contact a coffee. I had to run being in Logistics doughnut club by HR at the corporate level just so I could provide a dozen doughnuts once every 6 weeks and had to prove that every single person in logistics that were partaking of said donuts was involved and had to buy on a schedule so there was total parity and no quid pro quo.
EDIT: The information is currently only searchable up to 2013, they're working on the more recent info.
Small amounts of money for food or travel reimbursement may not taint a doctor's judgement, but transparency keeps the system in check.