Briefing: Drug company penalties for paying kickbacks to doctors failed to dent bottom lines, analysis finds
Strategic angle: An analysis reveals that drugmakers penalized for kickbacks paid only a small fraction of their U.S. revenue from the drugs involved.
Editorial Staff
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Updated 4 months ago
Penalized drugmakers paid only 2.2% of their U.S. revenue from the drugs in question.
The analysis covers a period of the past quarter century.
Kickback penalties have not significantly impacted the financial performance of these companies.