Word: antibioticized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Overzealous marketing practices in the drug industry have attracted attention in Washington. At a Senate hearing in December, critics cited a litany of abuses that seemed to cross the line between advertising and bribery. Roche, for example, paid doctors $1,200 to prescribe a new antibiotic to 20 hospital patients...
State governments, which have suffered deep cuts in health-care funding from Washington, are also taking action. With pharmaceutical costs in his state jumping as much as 18% annually since 1985, John Alquest, who oversees the $31 million Kansas Medicaid program, has developed a bidding program for six frequently used...
A growing number of hospitals have embarked on programs to make physicians better aware of the prices of different medications. Doctors at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital now order antibiotics on forms that list the most cost- effective choices. "The physician still maintains the prerogative of choosing the drug, but...