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Transparency is Not Enough to Stem Tide of Pharma Influence on Medicine
Mandated disclosure has not stopped pharma industry influence on physicians or prevented the pernicious effects on public health.
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A new study of the effects of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, a policy passed in 2014 as part of the Affordable Care Act, finds that the mandated financial disclosures have not prevented physicians from being influenced by pharmaceutical industry money.
The Sunshine Act requires that pharmaceutical and medical device companies report gifts to physicians. Leading experts on financial conflicts of interest, Joel Lexchin and Adrian Fugh-Berman, investigated the policy’s impact over the seven years it has been in effect. They found no evidence that physician behavior regarding financial conflicts of interest has changed in that time. Further, there was no evidence that employers, meeting organizers, or medical journals have excluded physicians based on their personal conflic