Q&A

While there are other health care professionals who assist us on this journey, including researchers and nurses — some of whom may even go by the term doctor, holding Ph.D. degrees — the disclosures on this site currently only include individuals who are licensed U.S.-based physicians.

The Lilly Physician Payment Registry will be updated quarterly. The archived annual reports are also included on this site. The registry will be updated with Q1 payments by August 1^st, Q2 payments by October 30^th, Q3 payments by January 30^th, and Q4 payments by May 1^st.

• Clinical study related data through the Clinical Trial Registry
• Educational grants and charitable contributions to institutions through the Lilly Grant Office
• Political contributions and additional details around our governance processes are available in our Report of Political Financial Support

Because physicians are providing services for Lilly and often must take time away from their practices, they are compensated for their time and expertise. Partnering with these experts is essential to our ability to develop new medicines and effectively educate health care professionals and patients on the risks and benefits of our medicines as well as other important medical and health-related topics.

Moreover, experts contracted by Lilly have deep knowledge and years of experience and bring a critical clinical perspective important to the scientific, clinical, and medical work that we do, as well as the educational programs, that is highly valued by other health care professionals.

Our compensation rates vary based on the credentials of the contracted physician. The rate of compensation is determined based on experience as well as fair market value — what the health care professional would earn from others for similar services.

We do not believe there is an inherent conflict of interest when physicians provide limited, bona fide services to Lilly. We believe it is important to limit the amount of annual compensation we provide to contracted speakers and commercial consultants. In fact, Lilly instituted this cap in 2004, several years before it was recommended by the PhRMA code.

In addition, Lilly takes a number of measures to publicly disclose their contractual arrangements with physicians. For example, at the beginning of a Lilly educational program, the contracted speaker is required to identify himself or herself as a compensated representative of Lilly. The speaker must tell the audience that the program is sponsored by Lilly and its alliance partner, if applicable.

Contracted speakers and consultants also agree, as a part of their contractual agreement with Lilly, that if they have a role in deciding which medicines are covered on health care plans with a public or private institution or payer, they will disclose the nature of their contract with Lilly. Often health care professionals are associated with medical and academic institutions that have their own conflict of interest policies or are subject to state regulations to which they must adhere.

Physicians and their staff are very busy and find it difficult to take time away from patient care to keep up with product information and other medical developments. Consequently, Lilly and other companies often use the lunch and dinner hours as a time to exchange information with physicians and their staff and answer product questions. When such in-office lunch meetings occur, Lilly representatives will occasionally provide modest meals or beverages, as a courtesy. Additionally, physicians may be invited to attend out-of-office presentations, which involve more in-depth presentations by contracted speakers. In those out-of-office settings, we may also offer a meal to participants. In all cases, the meal facilitates the main purpose of the interaction: the exchange of information important to patient care.

No. If a physician receives a payment, serves as a principal investigator or lead researcher on a Lilly study or an investigator-initiated trial, or receives non-cash forms of disclosable value from Lilly, his or her name and the related value will be disclosed in the Physician Payment Registry.

Physicians may submit an inquiry by visiting https://elililly.ethicspointvp.com/custom/el_hcph/ or by calling 1-877-237-8197.

We can only speak to what Lilly is required to report to the IRS. Lilly employees may occasionally provide meals to health care professionals in conjunction with a business discussion. The U.S. tax code does not require the inclusion of the value of such business meals to be reported on Forms 1099 issued by Lilly.