Drug, Medical Device Firms Pay Billions to US Physicians, Hospitals

U.S. doctors and teaching hospitals received $3.5 billion from pharmaceutical companies and medical device makers in the last five months of 2013, according to the most extensive data trove on such payments ever made public. The payments, disclosed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Tuesday, include consulting and speaking fees, travel, meals, entertainment and research grants.

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