Research and Nonresearch Industry Payments to Nephrologists in the United States between 2014 and 2021.

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Concerns about the financial relationships between nephrologists and the health care industry have been reported in the United States over the past decade. However, since the 2014 launch of the federal transparency database, Open Payments, few documents have explored the whole picture of research and nonresearch payments to US nephrologists from industry sources. In this study, the authors found that 87% of nephrologists have received nonresearch payments, and the aggregate amount of these payments has been increasing since 2014. Only 12% of nephrologists received research payments; these recipients were disproportionately male. In addition, the top 5% of nephrologists receiving nonresearch funds received 81% of all such payments. Nonresearch payments were la

SUBMITTER: Murayama A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10561777 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature