You’re cute.

I’ve never heard of a waiting period beyond a few hours to pickup a script after drop-off.

No compound leads researchers to believe it works for pain? Really?

But, there’s nothing wrong with that. If they BELIEVE in the product and they want to rep it, that’s fine. It’s different if the device is garbage and the doctors are doing it for money.

Well, we should have AT LEAST as much restrictions on gun owners as there are current restrictions on prescribing opioids.

Except, it’s very hard to do that because of electronic records. Unless they’re going to some country bumpkin doctor all physicians in the United States are required to electronic records and those details are in there.

Except there isn’t. Please, feel free to go through the anti-kickback statute and tell me where it says that physicians can get paid for prescribing oncology drugs. Go ahead. I’ll wait.

So... your assertion is that doctors, as a whole, violate laws up and down?

No major medical facility that is affiliated with a university hospital system allows drug reps to give ANYTHING to doctors anymore. It’s just not done.

Insofar as insurance claims payments, yes. But they do not receive anything beyond that as it’d be a direct violation of the anti-kickback statute. Any doctor receiving remuneration (other than from insurance payment) for prescribing a given drug is violating the anti-kickback statute and will be subject to possible…

No, they don’t. Oncologists, like ALL DOCTORS, are subject to the anti-kickback statute. There is no exception for oncology.

Thank you! The anti-kickback statute is quite clear that you can’t get remuneration for prescribing a given drug other than whatever the insurance payment is for that billing level.

No, but the vast and overwhelming majority of doctors do not. So, yes, like every single other profession on the planet, there are some bad apples. What is it that you do that every single person in your field is a saint, lest we impute their characteristics to you?

Except, that doesn’t really happen. In fact, most drug seekers go to ERs where they’d just assume not treat those people because they take up valuable space.

YOU CANNOT DO THAT. IT IS ILLEGAL.

No, it’s literally not. It is a direct violation of the anti-kickback statute. They do that, they lose their license and risk 5 years in jail. Sorry, that is wholly incorrect.

No, I live in the US and am married to a doctor. Trust me when I say, as a licensed attorney, this does not happen NEARLY as much as you think it does. Doctors DO NOT make money off this like you think they do.

No, that literally cannot work. A doctor doesn’t write a script and collect from the drug maker. That is a per se violation of the anti-kickback statute. It comes with 5 years in prison or a $25,000 fine and probably revocation of your license to practice.

They don’t skirt it, they just don’t get caught. I’d say, at any given time there’s probably at least 10% of medical practitioners that are unknowingly violating the statute as well as probably professional corporation laws at any given time.

So... because a tiny percentage of doctors, like any other worker, have some scumbags, all doctors make money off prescriptions by committing fraud and/or engaging in illegal activities?