Types and distribution of payments from industry to physicians in 2015

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 317, Issue 17, 2017, Pages 1774-1784

  Tringale, Kathryn R ^a   Marshall, Deborah ^b   Mackey, Tim K ^c   Connor, Michael ^b   Murphy, James D ^b   Hattangadi Gluth, Jona A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATHY; ARTICLE; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICARE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGEON; UNITED STATES; ECONOMICS; FEMALE PHYSICIAN; HEALTH ECONOMICS; INDUSTRY; INVESTMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICINE; ODDS RATIO; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; ECONOMICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; INVESTMENTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICINE; ODDS RATIO; OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE; OWNERSHIP; PHYSICIANS; PHYSICIANS, WOMEN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURGEONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85019401477     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2017.3091     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Campbell EG, Gruen RL, Mountford J, Miller LG, Cleary PD, Blumenthal D. A national survey of physician-industry relationships. N Engl J Med. 2007;356(17):1742-1750.
2. DeJong C, Aguilar T, Tseng C-W, Lin GA, BoscardinWJ, Dudley RA. Pharmaceutical industry-sponsored meals and physician prescribing patterns for Medicare beneficiaries. JAMA Intern Med. 2016;176(8):1114-10.
3. Lo B, Field MJ. Conflict of Interest in Medical Research, Education, and Practice.Washington, DC: National Academies Press; 2009.
4. Rosenthal MB, Mello MM. Sunlight as disinfectant-new rules on disclosure of industry payments to physicians. N Engl J Med. 2013;368 (22):2052-2054.
5. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Medicare, Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance Programs; transparency reports and reporting of physician ownership or investment interests. Fed Regist. 2013;78(27):9457-9528.
6. Kesselheim AS, Robertson CT, Siri K, Batra P, Franklin JM. Distributions of industry payments to Massachusetts physicians. N Engl J Med. 2013;368 (22):2049-2052.
7. Rose SL, Sanghani RM, Schmidt C, Karafa MT, Kodish E, Chisolm GM. Gender differences in physicians' financial ties to industry. PLoS One. 2015;10(6):e0129197.
8. Department of Health and Human Services. Annual report to Congress on the Open Payments Program. https://www.cms.gov/openpayments/downloads/open-payments-report-to-congress .pdf. Published April 2016. Accessed April 4, 2017.
9. Marshall DC, Jackson ME, Hattangadi-Gluth JA. Disclosure of industry payments to physicians. Mayo Clin Proc. 2016;91(1):84-96.
10. Marshall DC, Moy B, Jackson ME, Mackey TK, Hattangadi-Gluth JA. Distribution and patterns of industry-related payments to oncologists in 2014. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2016;108(12):djw163.
11. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. NPI files webpage. NPPES data dissemination. http://download.cms.gov/nppes/NPI-Files.html. Accessed August 28, 2016.
12. Bindman AB. Using the National Provider Identifier for health care workforce evaluation. Medicare Medicaid Res Rev. 2013;3(3):1-10.
13. Rappleye E. 2015 physician compensation, work RVU by specialty. Becker's Hospital Review. http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/compensation-issues/2015-physician-compensation-work-rvu-by-specialty.html. Published 2016. Accessed March 22, 2017.
14. Claims-based price, age, sex and race-adjusted Medicare spending. 2013; http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/downloads/tables/pa-reimb-hrr-2013.xls. Accessed October 12, 2016.
15. Campbell EG, Rao SR, DesRoches CM, et al. Physician professionalism and changes in physician-industry relationships from 2004 to 2009. Arch Intern Med. 2010;170(20):1820-1826.
16. Chen C, Petterson S, Phillips R, Bazemore A, Mullan F. Spending patterns in region of residency training and subsequent expenditures for care provided by practicing physicians for Medicare beneficiaries. JAMA. 2014;312(22):2385-2393.
17. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid. Frequently asked questions: open payments. https://questions .cms.gov/faq.php?id=5005&rtopic=2017. Accessed February 27, 2017.
18. Bekelman JE, Li Y, Gross CP. Scope and impact of financial conflicts of interest in biomedical research. JAMA. 2003;289(4):454-465.
19. Chren MM, Landefeld CS. Physicians' behavior and their interactions with drug companies. JAMA. 1994;271(9):684-689.
20. Marcus HJ, Payne CJ, Hughes-Hallett A, et al. Regulatory approval of new medical devices: cross sectional study. BMJ. 2016;353:i2587.
21. Ganz RA. The impact of health care reform on innovation and new technology. Gastrointest Endosc Clin N Am. 2012;22(1):109-120.
22. Samuel AM,Webb ML, Lukasiewicz AM, et al. Orthopaedic surgeons receive the most industry payments to physicians but large disparities are seen in Sunshine Act data. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2015;473(10):3297-3306.
23. Korenstein D, Keyhani S, Ross JS. Physician attitudes toward industry. Arch Surg. 2010;145(6): 570-577.
24. O'Connor B, Pollner F, Fugh-Berman A. Salespeople in the surgical suite. PLoS One. 2016;11 (8):e0158510.
25. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. CMS releases prescriber-level Medicare data for first time. https://www.cms.gov/Newsroom/MediaReleaseDatabase/Fact-sheets/2015-Fact-sheets-items/2015-04-30.html. Published 2015. Accessed February 16, 2017.
26. Bodenheimer T. Uneasy alliance-clinical investigators and the pharmaceutical industry. N Engl J Med. 2000;342(20):1539-1544.
27. Ackerly DC, Valverde AM, Diener LW, Dossary KL, Schulman KA. Fueling innovation in medical devices (and beyond). Health Aff (Millwood). 2009; 28(1):w68-w75.
28. Zuckerman JD, Prasarn M, Kubiak EN, Koval KJ. Conflict of interest in orthopaedic research. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2004;86-A(2):423-428.
29. Chatterji AK, Fabrizio KR, MitchellW, Schulman KA. Physician-industry cooperation in the medical device industry. Health Aff (Millwood). 2008;27(6):1532-1543.
30. Strope SA, Daignault S, Hollingsworth JM, Ye Z,Wei JT, Hollenbeck BK. Physician ownership of ambulatory surgery centers and practice patterns for urological surgery. Med Care. 2009;47 (4):403-410.
31. Mitchell JM. Effect of physician ownership of specialty hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers on frequency of use of outpatient orthopedic surgery. Arch Surg. 2010;145(8):732-738.
32. Zientek DM. Physician entrepreneurs, self-referral, and conflicts of interest. HEC Forum. 2003;15(2):111-133.
33. Ruel E, Hauser RM. Explaining the gender wealth gap. Demography. 2013;50(4):1155-1176.
34. Tsugawa Y, Jena AB, Figueroa JF, Orav EJ, Blumenthal DM, Jha AK. Comparison of hospital mortality and readmission rates for Medicare patients treated by male vs female physicians. JAMA Intern Med. 2017;177(2):206-213.
35. Meffert JJ. Key opinion leaders: where they come from and how that affects the drugs you prescribe. Dermatol Ther. 2009;22(3):262-268.
36. DingWW, Murray F, Stuart TE. Gender differences in patenting in the academic life sciences. Science. 2006;313(5787):665-667.
37. Sugimoto CR, Ni C,West JD, Larivière V. The academic advantage: gender disparities in patenting. PLoS One. 2015;10(5):e0128000.
38. Weeks WB,Wallace AE. Differences in the annual incomes of emergency physicians related to gender. Acad Emerg Med. 2007;14(5):434-440.
39. Weeks WB,Wallace AE. Association of race and gender with general surgeons' annual incomes. J AmColl Surg. 2006;203(4):558-567.
40. Chimonas S, Brennan TA, Rothman DJ. Physicians and drug representatives. J Gen Intern Med. 2007;22(2):184-190.
41. de Vries CS, van Diepen NM, Tromp TFJ, de Jong-van den Berg LTW. Auditing GPs' prescribing habits. Eur J Clin Pharmacol. 1996;50 (5):349-352.