It’s illegal for doctors to get kickbacks in the US. The most the average doctors gets is lunch provided to go to a lecture from a drug company.
A free lunch isn’t enough to convince anyone to sit through an hour long lecture they weren’t already going to.
But if you’re worried that your doctor is one of the small percentage of doctors who is paid to give those lectures, you can look them up. All payments are publicly available. You can easily find exactly how much they were paid, when, and for what.
(The $20 in provided lunch is also required to be reported).
A free lunch isn’t enough to convince anyone to sit through an hour long lecture they weren’t already going to.
But if you’re worried that your doctor is one of the small percentage of doctors who is paid to give those lectures, you can look them up. All payments are publicly available. You can easily find exactly how much they were paid, when, and for what.
(The $20 in provided lunch is also required to be reported).