It’s certainly not enough of an effect that doctors make decisions on what to prescribe based on their malpractice insurance premiums.
There are no healthy habit recommendations anymore in many practices due to anti shame culture etc.
This is different to other parts of the world with healthier citizens.
Doctors are humans though and if people repeatedly ask for a specific treatment some percentage of them will offer it. That’s how drug advertising impacts prescriptions. Nothing to do with liability.
https://www.mdlinx.com/article/a-physician-s-guide-to-accept...
Increased reporting requirements and a cap on the value of these gifts that is far too low for box seats.
My wife's a physician, and I've seen these things change dramatically. Sometimes some food for the whole office will get dropped off. Or donuts. No one's getting box seats to a pro sports game anymore.
Perks for prescriptions is illegal.
If your GF is really keeping score and rewarding doctors for performance, she’s breaking anti kickback laws. All that has to happen is for prosecutor to make the connection.
I know a guy who spent 3 years in prison for something very very close to what you just described. He was just a rep and he said he was just doing what his company told him to do, but they threw him under the bus and now he’s a felon.
If you don’t want a doctor who takes money to run clinical trials, use this database to avoid them. It’s not hard.
At most a drug rep comes by and brings donuts or something to talk about their new drugs.
Source wife is a doctor.