STAT+: Novo Nordisk bought prescribers over 450,000 meals and snacks to promote drugs like Ozempic
Novo Nordisk bought 457,222 meals to educate doctors about its drugs like Ozempic. More than 200 doctors had more than 50 meals with the company.
WASHINGTON – Novo Nordisk spent $11 million on meals and travel for thousands of doctors last year, federal records show, as part of its push to promote Ozempic and other weight loss-inducing diabetes drugs.
The pharmaceutical company bought more than 457,000 meals to educate doctors and other prescribers about its portfolio of drugs known as GLP-1 agonists, according to the newly released data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Nearly 12,000 prescribers had food paid for by the company more than a dozen times last year. More than two hundred recorded more than 50 meals and snacks paid for by the company. One doctor, who is a frequent speaker for the company, recorded 193.
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