J and J ordered to pay

[CJD]

I've heard from a few of my friends who are doctors or work in doctor's offices that drug reps constantly come into the hospital/doctor's office and bring free food, free merch and try to persuade people to prescribe their drug instead of other drugs. If you accept their free stuff, then they will follow up with you if they see that you either aren't prescribing their drug to people or are prescribing other competitors' drugs instead. It's pay for play without technically being pay for play.

In addition, doctors will be sponsored by drug reps to go give speeches or presentations at conventions (and paying them to do so), which is...shady and kind of grey in terms of its ethical nature.

There are also rumors of actual bribes, but that's just straight unethical behavior that is harder to verify.

I think that's probably the kind of behavior that they are being held accountable for.