January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
412 pages
9h 33m
English
Physicians and hospitals alike receive payments from various external organizations, such as pharmaceutical companies who engage sales representatives to not only educate practitioners on their products, but also provide gifts or payments in kind or otherwise. In theory, gifts or payments made to physicians are not intended to influence their prescribing behavior, and pharmaceutical companies adopt careful measures to maintain checks and balances on payments being made to healthcare providers.
In 2010, President Obama's signature Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known in popular parlance as Obamacare, went into effect. Alongside the ACA, a separate legislation known as the Sunshine Act made ...
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