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ProSense

(116,464 posts)
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 01:57 PM Apr 2013

New Website Will Disclose Health Industry Payments To Doctors

New Website Will Disclose Health Industry Payments To Doctors

By Ankita Rao

For the first time, the government will make information about financial relationships between doctors, teaching hospitals and drug manufacturers publicly available.

To comply with a provision in the Affordable Care Act, drug and device manufacturers, along with group purchasing organizations, will have to disclose all of their payments and other compensation to physicians and teaching hospitals. Those who don’t comply could be fined.

The information will be gathered beginning in August and disclosed by Sept. 30, 2014 on a new website of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The site is part of the National Physician Payment Transparency Program, an effort to bring the financial relationships to light.

The possible conflict of interest that occurs when physicians receive gifts and incentives from drug companies has made news for the past few years. Dr. Charles Nemeroff, former Department of Psychiatry chairman at Emory University, earned $2.8 million by speaking and consulting for drug companies over seven years. An article in the Economist in March said drug companies spent more than $24 billion marketing to doctors in 2012...the nonprofit media organization ProPublica produced a database called Dollars for Docs in October 2010, where people could look up physicians and payments they received from drug companies. “They have a right to know this information and ask questions about it if they want to,” said Charles Ornstein, a reporter at ProPublica who was part of the project.

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New Website Will Disclose Health Industry Payments To Doctors (Original Post) ProSense Apr 2013 OP
How about Congress? liberal N proud Apr 2013 #1
I don't know about Congress, but ProSense Apr 2013 #3
how bout doctors and dentists posting their fees online so we can comparison shop? nt msongs Apr 2013 #2
Yeah, because cost is how you choose the best doctor. kestrel91316 Apr 2013 #5
I'd forgotten about this, or maybe I figured this bit got bargained away. This is awesome. Robb Apr 2013 #4

ProSense

(116,464 posts)
3. I don't know about Congress, but
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 02:07 PM
Apr 2013

since the drug companies have enough money to throw billions at "doctors, teaching hospitals and drug manufacturers," the House and Senate could save the government billions by passing one of these proposals, the President's (http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022670043) or the Senate's (http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022725266).





Robb

(39,665 posts)
4. I'd forgotten about this, or maybe I figured this bit got bargained away. This is awesome.
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 02:08 PM
Apr 2013

Holy shit but there's going to be a lot of Bayer-sponsored fishing trips to Alaska and golf in Telluride suddenly getting declined. Is this retroactive, or just going forward?

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