Paying Physicians to Prescribe Generic Drugs and Follow-On Biologics in the United States

Ameet Sarpatwari; Niteesh K. Choudhry; Jerry Avorn; Aaron S. Kesselheim

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001802

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Paying Physicians to Prescribe Generic Drugs and Follow-On Biologics in the United States

Ameet Sarpatwari,

Affiliation Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL), Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Niteesh K. Choudhry,

Affiliation Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL), Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Jerry Avorn,

Affiliation Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL), Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Aaron S. Kesselheim

* E-mail: akesselheim@partners.org

Affiliation Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL), Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Paying Physicians to Prescribe Generic Drugs and Follow-On Biologics in the United States

Ameet Sarpatwari,
Niteesh K. Choudhry,
Jerry Avorn,
Aaron S. Kesselheim

Published: March 17, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001802

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