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Huh? Drug reps have scorecards for the doctors they call on and throw perks at the top performers or influencers. It also depends on the speciality - dermatologists working for price equity mills are almost evaluated like salespeople. Source: girlfriend is a rep.


Yeah and what are those perks? Pens, t-shirts, backpacks, posters for patient rooms?


Steak dinners and briefings at the beach.


Each one of those has to be reported and the information is publicly available.

Perks for prescriptions is illegal.

If your GF is really keeping score and rewarding doctors for performance, she’s breaking anti kickback laws. All that has to happen is for prosecutor to make the connection.

I know a guy who spent 3 years in prison for something very very close to what you just described. He was just a rep and he said he was just doing what his company told him to do, but they threw him under the bus and now he’s a felon.




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