Drug companies pay around £40m a year to healthcare professionals in payments, gifts and hospitality.
Pharmaceutical firms give around £40m a year to healthcare professionals in payments, gifts and hospitality.
Mr. O'Neill wrote to the senators today, repeating that he considered the payments gifts but agreeing to amend his tax return for the three years as a precaution.
Such marketing, according to analysts and court documents, included payments, gifts, meals and trips for doctors, biased studies, ghostwritten medical journal articles, promotional conference appearances, and payments for postgraduate medical education that encourages a pro-drug outlook among doctors.
The rules may require 1,000 or more makers of drugs, medical devices and other medical products to report payments, gifts, consulting fees, research support among other types of compensation made to physicians and teaching hospitals.
For more than a year, the Justice Department and F.B.I. have been investigating the $1 million in payments, gifts and other incentives offered to I.O.C. members during Salt Lake City's winning bid for the 2002 Winter Games.
The rule that only currently produced goods and services should be counted ensures that only production occurring in the course of a given year is included and that any transaction in which money changes hands but no good or service does so in return (so-called transfer payments, e.g., unemployment or social-security payments, gifts) is excluded.
The I.O.C. announced last month that Samaranch had agreed to submit to a "voluntary interview" with Justice Department and F.B.I. investigators probing the more than $1 million in improper payments, gifts and other inducements offered to I.O.C. members during Salt Lake City's winning bid for the 2002 Winter Games.
The indictment, which names 12 defendants, charges the former treasurer, Corey Kemp, with accepting payments, gifts and other benefits from the lawyer, Ronald A. White, in exchange for directing city business worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to Mr. White's law firm and other companies linked to him.
