Changes in pharmaceutical industry payments to physicians after New Jersey's 2018 restriction.

Abstract

The federal government and several states have implemented measures to restrict, ban, and increase transparency of promotional payments from pharmaceutical companies to clinicians who prescribe medications. In 2018, New Jersey adopted a novel rule that included a $10 000 restriction on aggregate annual prescriber compensation for promotional speaking, advisory board participation, and consulting arrangements. In this study, we estimated changes associated with the restriction by comparing paymen