HCP Meal Limits Survey 2020: Key Findings and Insights

A short while ago, we conducted a survey on HCP Meal limits across the life sciences industry. The purpose of this survey was to get an idea about a general trend in HCP meal limits set by pharma and medical device manufacturing companies and share the findings so that compliance teams across the industry can also plan their meal limits or derive insights as per suited to them.

The survey comprised of questions ranging from:

• Life sciences company’s size in terms of annual revenue

• In-office and out-of-office meal caps

• The COVID situation and how companies were conducting HCP meals amidst lockdowns

• Revisions in meal caps due to COVID

• Other aspects the companies have been monitoring.

We put together all the survey responses and visualized the obtained data in our HCP Meal Limits Survey 2020 report.

• 52.9% of the respondents worked in a pharma

• 41.7% worked in medical device manufacturing companies
  

• 52. 8% of organizations have the same meal limits for both in-office and out-of-office meals

• 41.2% of organizations have different limits

One common meal limit figure we came across very often: is $125

Out of the organizations that have separate meal Limits for in-office and out of office meals,

28.6% have organizations have a meal limit of $125 for all out-of-office meals, be it breakfast/snack, lunch, or dinner.

As for in-office meal limits, whether the organizations have separate meal limits for in-office and out-of-office meals or not,

11.8% of organizations have a meal limit of $125 for all in-office meals, be it breakfast/snack, lunch, or dinner.

You can download the entire survey insights with graphical representation here: Download HCP Meal Limit Survey 2020

We’d like to thank all the stakeholders that took part in this survey. We hope this survey adds value to your day-to-day function as a compliance team and especially within the Compliance Monitoring vertical. This survey might also give you insights on what other organizations have capped as HCP meal limit and help you set your own meal caps accordingly.