Articles by Charles Ornstein

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New Documents Show How Drug Companies Targeted Doctors to Increase Opioid Prescriptions
Charles Ornstein | ProPublica - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 May 2022

17 May 2022 – A trove of documents published as part of a legal settlement offers an unvarnished look inside the financial relationships between pharmaceutical companies and the medical community — from the perspective of drug companies themselves.

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What We’ve Learned from Four Years of Diving into Dollars for Doctors
Charles Ornstein, Eric Sagara and Ryann Grochowski Jones – ProPublica, Journalism in the Public Interest, 6 Oct 2014

Payments from pharmaceutical companies touch hundreds of thousands of doctors. The 17 companies we’ve tracked spent $1.4 billion in 2013 alone. Here are our top five takeaways from following all that money.

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Feds to Publicize Drug and Device Company Payments to Doctors Next Year
Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber - ProPublica, 11 Mar 2013

After years of anticipation, all of the nation’s drug and medical device makers must soon begin publicly reporting payments they make to U.S. physicians, according to final regulations announced this afternoon [1 Feb 2013] by the federal government.

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