CMS BLOG
April 14, 2016
By:
Shantanu Agrawal, M.D, Deputy Administrator and Director of CMS’ Center for
Program Integrity
Check
your 2015 Open Payments data
The
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ continues to publish data from
applicable manufacturers and group purchasing organizations (GPOs) about
payments they make to physicians and teaching hospitals on its website, https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/.
We’re pleased that the public has searched Open
Payments data more than 6.3 million
times. Doctors, teaching hospitals and others receiving payments or other
transfers of value that are sent to us from reporting entities, should take
steps to ensure that this information about you, your related research,
ownership, and other financial concerns are accurate.
Doctors and teaching hospitals have
the chance to review and dispute the information shared about them before we
post the new and updated Open Payments data on June 30, 2016. The data we post
on June 30th is now available for review through May 15, 2016.
Since April 1, this is the only chance for these
health care providers to dispute inaccurate or incomplete data before we
post it. After that they only have until the end of the year that this
financial data is published to review and dispute any payment records and how
it was attributed from GPOs, drug and device manufacturers.
Any doctor or teaching hospital
that wants to look at the financial information reported on them by
manufacturers and GPOs can register on the Open
Payments website to create an account or log if they already have an account.
Visit our website for instructions
and quick tips.
Last June, we posted payments and
ownership interests reported in 2014 about more than 607,000 physicians and
1,122 teaching hospitals, valued at $6.45 billion. Health care practitioners
and teaching hospitals were paid for items like medical research, conference
travel and lodging, gifts and consulting.
The Open
Payments program is one way we can give patients, their families and
caregivers transparency and information that helps them:
- Become better informed health care consumers.
- Talk to their doctors and other care professionals.
If you want to learn more about the
program, visit the Open
Payments program website or send questions to openpayments@cms.hhs.gov
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