Industry Notes: Open Payments Data Is Available for Perusal
If you fall into the Covered Recipients’ category of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments program, you can look at and dispute recently-updated data through May 15.
Reminder: CMS began Open Payments to ensure accountability and transparency in healthcare. “Drug and medical device companies must report to CMS payments or transfers of value they make to certain healthcare providers and teaching hospitals for research, meals, travel, gifts, speaking fees, and more,” the Open Payments website reminds.
Each year the agency publishes this data and makes it available for public perusal. Covered Recipients have...
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