CMS Releases 2014 Open Payments Data; Industry Payments To Docs Top $6.49 Billion
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Over 11.4 million financial transactions from device and drug firms to physicians in 2014 worth over $6.49 billion were reported to the Open Payments database, including individual royalties and consulting fees in the hundreds of thousands of dollars from orthopedic firms, according to CMS data.
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