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Crain's New York Business, March, 2007 by Engquist, Erik
Byline: Erik Engquist and Anne Michaud Seniors take on pharmacy chains Senior lobby AARP plans a major push in Albany for legislation to stop doctors' prescription data from being compiled and sold to drug companies. AARP's state legislative director, William Ferris, says pharmacy chains are selling lists of the prescriptions they fill, with doctors' names and addresses, to data-mining companies.
The firms resell the information to drugmakers, who use it to target doctors for sales calls. "We want drugs prescribed in the best interest of the patient, not drugs that a sales rep or a marketing scheme says are the best,'' Mr. Ferris says. State Sen. John DeFrancisco, R-Syracuse, and Assemblyman Kevin Cahill, D-Ulster, are sponsoring bills to end the...
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