Anti-Kickback Laws
An HCP’s treatment decisions should not be tainted by motives of personal gain or enrichment. The anti-kickback laws seek to prohibit improper influences on healthcare decisions by making it a criminal and/or civil offense to knowingly and willfully solicit, receive, offer to pay, pay, or provide anything of value in order to influence or obtain government healthcare business. These laws prohibit payments intended to induce someone to purchase, prescribe, endorse or recommend a product that is reimbursed under federal or state healthcare programs. For example, the anti-kickback laws prohibit such activities as: Providing a gift to an HCP (including a pharmacist) to influence the prescribing, dispensing, or recommending of pharmaceutical products;