New health law will require industry to disclose payments to physicians

Apr 27 2010
Writing for Kaiser Health News, Arlene Weintraub reports: "Doctors who accept speaking fees, five-star meals and other compensation from pharmaceutical or medical device companies will soon see their names - and the value of the gifts they accept - revealed on the Web, under a new federal law that follows several states in drawing attention to such financial benefits" (Weintraub, 4/26). Read entire article.

Kaiser Health NewsThis article was reprinted from khn.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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