Pharma Faces Fraud Charges, What About Docs?

Amid the headlines and hoopla surrounding the stiff fines that many drugmakers have paid in recent years for off-label marketing, doctors almost always go untouched. To be specific, 15 drug and device makers paid $6.5 billion since 2008 to settle charges of fraud and kickbacks, but none of the more than 75 doctors who were named as participants were sanctioned, according to ProPublica.

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