National
Desk
| April 28, 2003, Monday
U.S. Warns
Drug Makers On Illegal Sales Practices
By ROBERT PEAR (NYT) 1042 words
Late Edition - Final , Section A ,
Page 16 , Column 5
ABSTRACT
- Bush administration issues compliance
guide for drug industry barring financial
incentives to doctors, hospitals, insurers
or pharmacists to encourage or reward
prescribing of particular drugs; Health and
Human Services inspector general Janet
Rehnquiest says such payments have high
potential for fraud and abuse; notes federal
antikickback law prohibits payments intended
to generate business under Medicare or
Medicaid; also warns that drug company
rsearch and education activities must be
divorced from their marketing (M) The Bush
administration told drug companies today
that many of the techniques they use to sell
their drugs run a high risk of violating
federal fraud and abuse laws.
The warning came as the government issued
a compliance guide for the drug industry,
telling manufacturers that they must not
offer any financial incentives to doctors,
hospitals, insurers or pharmacists to
encourage or reward the prescribing of
particular drugs.
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