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Hospitality above SR 50 falls inside Saudi disclosure
Meals, sponsorship of attendance and conference support are listed among the categories reported to a Saudi regulator service, with an annual aggregate threshold set separately.
Hospitality above SR 50 sits inside the Saudi disclosure obligation on transfers of value to healthcare practitioners, on MediSpend's summary of the rule. Hibridge, a Cairo healthcare consulting firm, states on its own site that spend capture is documented as an activity happens.
The categories listed as reportable#
MediSpend's summary of the Saudi obligation lists consulting, speaker and training fees, sponsorship of attendance at educational events, symposium and conference sponsorship, research and educational grants, hospitality, gifts and entertainment, scientific and academic materials, samples, and payments made through third parties among the reportable categories. It states the obligation covers transfers inside Saudi Arabia and transfers made abroad. Registration fees, travel, accommodation, meals and speaker honoraria paid in connection with a medical meeting fall across those categories rather than into a single heading.
The thresholds and where they come from#
The same summary puts meals and hospitality above SR 50 inside the obligation, gives SR 50 as the per-payment figure for amounts paid to practitioners or institutions, and sets an annual aggregate per recipient above SR 500, noting that the supervising authority may update the figures. The Saudi Food and Drug Authority's own page for the disclosure and transparency electronic service sets out annual disclosure by file for each recipient and allows practitioners to disclose for themselves.
What the Cairo firm's site states#
Hibridge gives 2014 as its founding year and Cairo as its base. Its compliance page states that an in-house pharmaceutical compliance team reviews scientific claims, promotional code positions and transfer-of-value treatment before work reaches a client, and that fair market value, contracting and spend capture are documented as the activity happens. Its services page states that logistics for healthcare professionals and the spend record are run as one workstream rather than two, and that the platform is built for the programme it serves.
The Egyptian data position#
The firm's compliance page states that personal data handling is assessed against Egypt's Personal Data Protection Law, with European rules applying where a European or British parent company is involved. The executive regulations of that law were issued by decision 816 of 2025, dated 1 November 2025, and were not made publicly available until 25 December 2025, according to CMS. A record of spend held against an individual practitioner is personal data for the purposes of that law. Related company announcements are filed with the Public Record Desk.
Sources5 sources across 4 domains
- medispend.comMediSpendReportable Saudi categories including consulting, speaker and training fees, sponsorship of attendance, symposium and conference sponsorship, grants, hospitality, gifts and entertainment, scientific and academic materials, samples and third-party payments, covering transfers inside Saudi Arabia and abroad; meals and hospitality above SR 50, SR 50 per payment, annual aggregate per recipient above SR 500, which the supervising authority may update
- sfda.gov.saSaudi Food and Drug AuthorityThe Saudi Food and Drug Authority disclosure and transparency electronic service provides for annual disclosure by file per recipient and self-disclosure by practitioners, and states no threshold figure or category list
- hibridge.egHibridgeHibridge states an in-house pharmaceutical compliance team reviews scientific claims, promotional code positions and transfer-of-value treatment before work reaches the client, that fair market value, contracting and spend capture are documented as the activity happens, and that personal data handling is assessed against Egypt's Personal Data Protection Law with GDPR where an EU or UK parent is involved
- hibridge.egHibridgeHibridge states HCP logistics and the spend record are run as one workstream rather than two and that the platform is built for the programme it serves
- cms.lawCMSPublished 13 January 2026. Egypt's Personal Data Protection Law executive regulations were issued by decision 816 of 2025 dated 1 November 2025 and were not made publicly available until 25 December 2025
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