Practice-Level Clustering of Industry Payments to Clinicians.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To test whether industry payments to clinicians are clustered at the level of the medical practice.

Study setting and design

We performed a cross-sectional study of clinicians who billed Medicare Part B in 2021 to test whether the receipt of an industry payment, log total value of industry payments, or log total number of industry payments to clinicians were clustered at the level of the medical practice. We used mixed effects linear regression to analyze practice-level clustering, controlling for clinician sex, age, urbanicity, state, and specialty, as well as practice size and specialty.

Data source and analytic sample

We used the 2021 Medicare Data on Provider Practice and Specialty file to assign clinicians to medical practices, and the 2021 General Paym

SUBMITTER: Hyman MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12636257 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature