Globally harmonized medical sales practices: The goal or the gravamen? Part two

By Nik Khakhar ( May 28, 2021, 11:54 AM EDT) -- As I discussed in the first article in this series, the Western conceptualization of corruption in the medical technologies sector, as seen through the essence of the Advanced Medical Technology Association’s (AdvaMed) Code of Ethics, is enforced statutorily through the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which sanctions improper interactions between U.S. medical device companies and foreign health-care professionals. Since the FCPA applies to U.S. companies, as well as any government employee or representative in a foreign country, it is particularly binding on interactions with health-care professionals in jurisdictions in which health care is a public service....