Official:Amending Title 6 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled “Health Code,” by adding a new Chapter 6-1200, entitled “Pharmaceutical Sales and Marketing Practices,” to provide for registration of pharmaceutical manufacturer agents and certain other requirements; and to prohibit gifts by pharmaceutical manufacturers and their agents to health care practitioners; all under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsor: Councilmember Greenlee
Introduced: October 11, 2018
: Committee on Public Health and Human Services
Status: Failed
This bill would have required pharmaceutical manufacturers and their agents to register with the city and prohibited them from giving gifts to healthcare providers, aiming to curb aggressive marketing practices that may lead to overprescription of opioids.
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