The 25 largest medical device companies paid out a collective $894.6 million in general and research fees to doctors in 2015, according to data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released last month. The CMS Open Payments program, created under the Affordable Care Act with the aim of improving transparency, requires device and drug […]
Physician Payment Sunshine Act
Sunshine Act: Medical device and drug companies paid docs $7.5B last year
(Reuters) — Doctors and hospitals in the U.S. received $7.52 billion in payments and ownership and investment interests from the makers of drugs and medical devices in 2015, according to data released by a government health agency. The data includes payments for items and services such as food and beverage, travel, education, honoraria as well as […]
CMS Open Payments: Top medical device spenders
Forty medical device companies paid out a collective $872.3 million to hospitals and doctors last year, including $652.7 million in general payments and $219.6 million in research grants, according to the Open Payments database compiled by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service. The Open Payments program, created under the Affordable Care Act with the aim of improving […]
CMS Open Payments: Device, drug makers drop $6.5m on hospitals, docs
(Reuters) — U.S. doctors and research hospitals collected nearly $6.5 billion in payments for services rendered to medical device and pharmaceutical companies in 2014, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments report released yesterday. The report, in its 2nd year, lists 11.4 million payments to 607,000 physicians and more than 1,100 teaching […]
Proposed changes to Open Payments requirements could be an expensive prospect for medtech
By Brian Bohnenkamp
Medicare: Medical device companies paid out $200m to physicians last year
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Some 437 medical device companies paid out a collective $199 million in cash and other payments to physicians last year, according to a new database from the U.S. Health & Human Services Dept.
$1.1 billion in drug, device payments to doctors not included in new federal database
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by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica
The federal government’s new database of drug and device industry payments to doctors is even more incomplete than has been reported previously.
Medical device, drug companies paid $3.5B to docs, hospitals in 2013
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. doctors and teaching hospitals received $3.5 billion from medical device makers and pharmaceutical companies in the last 5 months of 2013, according to the most extensive data trove on such payments ever made public.
What to be wary of in the government’s new site detailing industry money to docs
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by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica
This story was co-published with NPR’s Shots blog.
AdvaMed, PhRMA, BIO protest Sunshine law
Medicare’s Sunshine Act database is slated to go public later this month with a year’s worth of data on industry relationships with physicians, but an alliance of life sciences groups is calling for some sunshine of its own.
Sunshine Act/Conflict of Interest
As with previous years, it’s time to openly publish my conflict of interests, board memberships, advisory board positions, and government activities so that anyone reading my opinions has full transparency.
The federal government has made financial disclosure very easy with the Sunshine Act.
