AMA Warns Docs: Pay for Switches to Generics Risky

Physicians who switch patients from a brand name drug to generic drugs could face criminal charges.

AMA says that a physician who accepts payments from an insurer for switching a patient from brand name drugs to a generic drug "could potentially face both criminal and civil liability exposure under the federal anti-kickback statute."

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