CMS releases 2017 Open Payments data

By Benjamin Wallfisch (US) and Frances Morgan (US) on July 10, 2018 Posted in Transparency

The US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released Open Payments data reflecting payments and transfers of value paid by drug and device manufacturers to physicians and teaching hospitals.… Continue reading

CMS releases Open Payments data refresh

By Benjamin Wallfisch (US) on January 20, 2017 Posted in Transparency

This week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a refresh of its Open Payments dataset, which includes new data to account for the result of disputes and other data corrections since the last refresh in June 2016. Note that this release does not yet include 2016 data, which should be published in … Continue reading

Stay tuned – CMS plans to consider public comments received on the Sunshine Act

By on November 4, 2016 Posted in Transparency

CMS announced that the agency “will consider the public comments received [on the Open Payments / Sunshine Act program] in the future through possible rulemaking or publication of subregulatory guidance” in the recently released “Revisions to Payment Policies under the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2017.” But for now, CMS … Continue reading