{"id":15101,"date":"2020-01-30T05:17:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T10:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15101"},"modified":"2020-01-29T16:19:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T21:19:44","slug":"drugs-cost-more-when-manufacturers-sell-directly-to-physicians-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15101","title":{"rendered":"Drugs cost more when manufacturers sell directly to physicians, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Maia Anderson for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Drugmakers promoting their drugs directly to physicians affect prescribing quality and can raise drug prices, but the practice is more commonplace in smaller health systems with fewer physicians, according to a study\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamainternalmedicine\/fullarticle\/2759740?guestAccessKey=6ee7640d-5b70-4c73-a36f-00c486ed00ac&amp;utm_source=For_The_Media&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=ftm_links&amp;utm_content=tfl&amp;utm_term=012720\">published<\/a>\u00a0Jan. 27 in\u00a0<em>JAMA Internal Medicine<\/em>.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/pharmacy\/drugs-cost-more-when-manufacturers-sell-directly-to-physicians-study-says.html?origin=SupplyE&amp;utm_source=SupplyE&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;oly_enc_id=0773J2160145A4E\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10021\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Maia Anderson for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Drugmakers promoting their drugs directly to physicians affect prescribing quality and can raise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15102,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15101\/revisions\/15102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}