{"id":899,"date":"2012-07-30T15:07:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T15:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=899"},"modified":"2013-01-22T18:05:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T18:05:40","slug":"40-of-high-prescribing-docs-get-pharma-perks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=899","title":{"rendered":"40% Of High-Prescribing Docs Get Pharma Perks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Lisa Chedekel | Jul 28, 2012 7:59 pm<br \/>\nIn 2010 and 2011, Dr. Irene Abramovich of West Hartford was the state\u2019s top prescriber of Invega, an antipsychotic medication marketed by Janssen Pharmaceuticals. She also was in the top five prescribers of Zyprexa, an antipsychotic marketed by Eli Lilly, in 2008 and 2009.<br \/>\nDrug company reports show Janssen paid Abramovich $11,900 in speaking fees and travel expenses in 2010. Eli Lilly paid her $26,000 as a speaker in 2009, and more than $47,000 for speaking and travel in 2010. <a href=\"http:\/\/c-hit.newhavenindependent.org\/health\/entry\/40_of_high-prescribing_docs_get_pharma_perks\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lisa Chedekel | Jul 28, 2012 7:59 pm In 2010 and 2011, Dr. Irene Abramovich of West Hartford was the state\u2019s top prescriber of Invega, an antipsychotic medication marketed <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=899\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[382,383,356,98,384,385,381],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-newsroom","tag-dr-irene-abramovich","tag-dr-michael-brennan","tag-eli-lilly","tag-health","tag-janssen","tag-sen-charles-grassley","tag-top-prescribiing-docs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}