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CMS’ Open Payments Program Posts 2015 Financial Data
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published the 2015 Open Payments (sometimes called the “Sunshine Act”) data, along with newly submitted and updated payment records for 2013 and 2014, at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov.
The Open Payments program requires that transfers of value by drug, device, biological, and medical supply manufacturers to physicians and teaching hospitals be published on a public website.
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Assessment
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In program year 2015, healthcare industry manufacturers reported $7.52 billion in payments and ownership and investment interests to physicians and teaching hospitals. This amount is comprised of 11.90 million total records attributable to 618,931 physicians and 1,116 teaching hospitals. To find out what any doctor received in 2015, click here.
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