{"id":229362,"date":"2010-01-25T17:22:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T22:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/health\/2010\/01\/25\/ny-govenor-pushes-to-ban-drug-industry-gifts-to-docs\/"},"modified":"2010-01-25T17:22:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T22:22:15","slug":"n-y-governor-pushes-to-ban-drug-industry-gifts-to-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/229362","title":{"rendered":"N.Y. Governor Pushes to Ban Drug-Industry Gifts to Docs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Paterson\"When we wrote last week<\/a> about Gov. Paterson’s proposed New York budget, we overlooked an interesting detail: A push to restrict ties between doctors and drug companies. The full proposal starts on p. 42 of this PDF<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Several states<\/a> have already moved in this direction, and Paterson’s proposal is less restrictive than some. It would still allow drug reps to bring lunch to doctors’ offices, for example, though it would ban taking docs or their staff out to a restaurant.<\/p>\n

Other gifts “such as floral arrangements, artwork, compact discs or tickets to a sporting event” would be prohibited under the proposal, which also regulates consulting relationships between doctors and drug companies, and industry funding of continuing medical education.<\/p>\n

Companies could be fined between $15,000 and $250,000 per violation, and docs and other health-care professionals could be fined $5,000 to $10,000.<\/p>\n

Voluntary guidelines<\/a> from the pharmaceutical trade group PhRMA also say drug company employees shouldn’t take doctors out for restaurant meals or give them gifts. And the guidelines include restrictions on consulting agreements and medical ed. <\/p>\n

But a PhRMA VP told the Associated Press<\/a> that Paterson’s proposal “calls for unneeded government intrusion into a competitive private marketplace that is already working well.” <\/p>\n

The proposal won’t become law unless it’s passed by the Legislature.<\/p>\n

Photo: Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n

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When we wrote last week about Gov. Paterson’s proposed New York budget, we overlooked an interesting detail: A push to restrict ties between doctors and drug companies. The full proposal starts on p. 42 of this PDF. Several states have already moved in this direction, and Paterson’s proposal is less restrictive than some. It would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}