The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released Open Payments data reflecting payments and transfers of value from drug and medical device companies to physicians and teaching hospitals in 2018, totaling approximately $9.35 billion in payments and more than 11.4 million payment records. This represents a 4.3% increase from the $8.4 billion reported … Continue reading
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
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
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