Re:Pharma Paid Physicians $6.5B in 2014 – Looking into the O...
by scardine on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @07:36AM
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In Brazil the industry is forbidden from giving money directly to physicians, so the bribe comes in the form of expenses paid to a cardiology congress at some tropical paradise. They also sponsor talks and things like that.
Orthopedists often take off-the-books kickbacks from physiotherapy clinics they recommend, Dermatologists take kickbacks from handling pharmacies for custom "hydrating lotions", and so on.
The worst case is the field of orthopedic prosthesis: it is controlled by a mob, the same gangsters control other surgical materials like the stents used for coronary angioplasty. A congressional committee investigated the issue and indicted 10 people from 16 companies:
* Empresas Oscar Iskin
* Totalmedic
* Life X
* Orcime
* IOL
* Brumed
* Strehl
* Intelimed
* Prohosp
* Tellus Rio Comércio e Importação e Exportação Ltda
* Elfa Produtos Hospitalares
* Atma Produtos Hospitalares
* Osteocare Serviços Médicos, Locação e Representação Ltda
* Signus do Brasil Comércio de Materiais Hospitalares Ltda
* Biotronik Comercial Médica Ltda
* Biomet
* Intraview
Like many other countries in South America, crime goes more or less unpunished.
Orthopedists often take off-the-books kickbacks from physiotherapy clinics they recommend, Dermatologists take kickbacks from handling pharmacies for custom "hydrating lotions", and so on.
The worst case is the field of orthopedic prosthesis: it is controlled by a mob, the same gangsters control other surgical materials like the stents used for coronary angioplasty. A congressional committee investigated the issue and indicted 10 people from 16 companies:
Like many other countries in South America, crime goes more or less unpunished.