How Pharmaceutical Industry Dollars Reach Your Doctors. By Mike Tigas, Ryann Grochowski Jones, Charles Ornstein, and Lena Groeger, ProPublica. Drug companies spend $30 billion annually on marketing. More than $2 billion in payments to doctors, other medical providers and health care institutions have been disclosed by 15 pharmaceutical companies since 2009. There are more than 70 pharmaceutical companies in…...