# Kickback Penalties Cost Pharma Two Cents Per Dollar—It's Just a Licensing Fee

- slug: kickback-penalties-cost-pharma-two-cents-per-dollar-its-just-a-licensing-fee
- date: 2026-03-24
- category: Biotech & Life Sciences

Pharmaceutical companies caught paying doctors to prescribe their drugs have paid roughly two cents in penalties for every dollar of revenue generated by the drugs involved in those schemes over the past quarter century.

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