Which Doctors Are Getting Paid By Glaxo, Lilly and Merck?

Published On: December 16th, 2009

pilldollar GlaxoSmithKline has become the latest big pharma company to disclose payments to health-care providers, listing 3,700 U.S. doctors and others who received a total of $14.6 million in speaking and consulting fees during the second quarter.

Glaxo limits payments to an individual physician to $150,000 a year; the average payment in the report was $3,909. Next year it plans to expand what it discloses. Here’s the list of recent payments. Here’s more on the company’s policy and an FT story on the report.

Glaxo joins a parade of drug companies that have started to shed light on their payments to health-care providers, all hoping to show some transparency before Congress makes good on a threat to make some disclosures mandatory. (See p. 1,542 of the Senate health-care bill.)

Others in the parade so far include:

Eli Lilly listed its payments to docs in a “faculty registry” first posted earlier this year. The company limits compensation for education and consulting activity to no more than $75,000 a year.

Merck disclosed payments to U.S. speakers for promotional medical-education activities in the third quarter. Here’s more on Merck’s disclosure plan.

Pfizer will begin disclosing payments to health-care professionals for consulting, speaking engagements and clinical trials exceeding $500 a year and non-monetary items such as meals exceeding $25. That reporting will start in the first quarter of 2010, and will expand in 2011 to “all payments, meals and reimbursable travel expenses, regardless of their individual or aggregate value”

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