The healthcare watchdog is stepping up its scrutiny of closed loop business models after warning company owners that influencing doctors is a criminal offence.

The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency said it has become “concerned” that health practitioners working in vertically integrated businesses, or where clinics prescribe and dispense a single medicine, are being “corrupted” by commercial incentives that jeopardise patient care.

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Steve has reported for a number of consumer and B2B titles over a journalism career spanning more than three decades. He is a regulator contributor to health journal, The Medical Republic, writing on...

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