CNN Exclusive: The more opioids doctors prescribe, the more money they make
Note: The only database CNN had access to was Medicare
Of the 200,000 doctors getting kickbacks for opiate prescriptions,
most recieved $100 to $1,000/year
Study was expanded upon by Mercola, May 2018
- Doctors Get Paid to Prescribe More Opioids
“One-Quarter of All Doctors Prescribe Opioids to Medicare Patients and Receive Payments From Opioid Makers”
“… many of the states struggling with the highest rates of overdose deaths, such as Indiana, Ohio and New Jersey, also had the most opioid-related payments to physicians”
See also Vitamin D Life
- 65% of doctors are getting cash “kickbacks” from big pharma March 2017 - paying doctors works
- Blue Cross Blue Shield pays your doctor a $40,000 bonus for fully vaccinating 100 patients under the age of 2
$400/fully vaccinated child - incentives to doctors appear to be needed and work - Off topic: Opiate Deaths increased 5.4 X in US in just three years - Sept 2017
- Off Topic: 4X increase in Americans taking morphine-type drugs in last decade (consider Vitamin D instead) – Aug 2014
- Palliative cancer benefit of 4,000 IU of Vitamin D – less opioids, infection, and CRP – Aug 2017
- Mistreated – book by Dr. Robert Pearl - May 2017
"Opiate use is now the most common cause of death from injury in the US. - Effect of Financial Incentives to Physicians, Patients, or Both on Lipid Levels JAMA RCT Nov 2015
When Doctors got $4,000/year and patients got $1,000/year the lipid levels (= target) were greatly reduced
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