White Guide and Orange Guide Formatting Project - Pfizer

Orange Guide – Chapter 17: State Laws: HCP and State Employee Restrictions
State Important Provisions of the State Law Key Points to Ensure Compliance
Minnesota Gifts to practitioners are prohibited.
Pfizer policy prohibits HCP meals to MN
practitioners, including nominal meals
and snacks.
Pfizer policy prohibits providing text
books, journal subscriptions, online
subscription services (e.g., Epocrates),
and anatomical models, to MN
practitioners.
Pfizer policy also prohibits engaging
MN practitioners as paid consultants,
except for the following type of
projects:
R&D, clinical, or
development-related projects
Outcomes Research or medical
publication-related projects
Speaking and Speaker training
Pfizer must report permissible non-gift
expenditures that exceed $100/year.
253
Do not invite MN practitioners to any
speaker programs that provide meals
(even if the program is conducted
outside of MN).
Unless an exception applies, do not
provide MN practitioners with meals
or snacks.
Do not provide MN practitioners text
books, journal subscriptions, online
subscription services (e.g., Epocrates,
including trial memberships), or
anatomical models.
Do not engage MN HCPs as
commercial consultants.
If you are unsure of whether an HCP
has a MN license, you can check the
HCP License List which is available on
the “State Healthcare Law
Compliance” tab on
http://OpSource.Pfizer.com. Also,
iCUE flags most (but not all) HCPs with
MN licenses.
You must make a good faith effort to
determine whether an HCP is licensed
in MN.
Accurately and completely record all
practitioner expenditures.
Rev. 09/12
Page 7 of 38