Company Payments To Teaching Hospitals Hard To Distinguish In Open Payments
Executive Summary
Both manufacturers and hospital-system personnel are complaining to CMS that payments by firms to non-teaching hospitals are becoming confused with payments to teaching hospitals in the public Open Payments database.
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