New study ties pharma payments to prescription practices
Recent efforts to improve transparency haven't made much of a difference, one author noted. But earlier reforms made a dent the "most egregious" practices.
These companies paid the most to docs last year
Open payments data shows that Novartis shelled out the most to physicians in 2015 - a total of $540 million. Who followed the drugmaker?
With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Debate: To what extent should doctors work with big pharma?
There's been a lot of criticism toward physician relationships with big pharma. But have we gone too far? A brewing academic debate examines this issue.
Open Payments didn’t include over $1B in first roll out
It tuns out that the data recently released from Open Payments wasn’t the full scope, according to ProPublica, citing a fact sheet from CMS that indicated the payments were missing more than $1.1 billion between August and December 2013. Last week, the long-anticipated Open Payments project showed 4.4 million payments worth about $3.5 billion. From ProPublica’s Charles Ornstein: The federal government’s […]
Medicare’s Open Payments off to a murky start
While some organizations and advocates say the long-anticipated arrival of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s Open Payments is an important milestone in healthcare transparency, the reaction around the web was thoroughly mixed, chiefly calling out the system’s clunkiness that was tough to navigate even for healthcare experts. Part of the ACA’s Sunshine Act, Open Payments […]
Infographic: Open Payments reveal cozy relation between docs and pharma
The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare continue to release reams of data, by way of its Open Payments project, and today we see some interesting factoids on how physicians are paid. The Pew Charitable Trust released the graphic below, which contains this nugget: more than $27 billion was spent by the pharmaceutical industry on marketing […]
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A Personalized Approach to Medication Nonadherence
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
CMS releases Sunshine Act apps, but does not protect app data
Just in time for everyone to begin reporting financial relationship data on Aug. 1, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services released two free apps last week to help doctors and manufacturers comply with the OPEN PAYMENTS program and allow them to track and review data from iOS and Android mobile devices. One app is aimed […]