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06/03/2012

Do doctor-payment sunshine laws work?

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The mere passage of a law that requires drug companies to disclose how much money they pay doctors may not change physician prescribing practices, suggests a new study. In two states that passed so-called sunshine laws requiring drugmakers to disclose payments, doctors’ choices of which drugs to prescribe for their patients did not differ much from those of peers in states without such a law.

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