Here Comes the Sunshine: Industry's Payments to Cardiothoracic Surgeons.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Physician Payment Sunshine Act was implemented to provide transparency to financial transactions between industry and physicians. Under this law, the Open Payments Program (OPP) was created to publicly disclose all transactions and inform patients of potential conflicts of interest. Collaboration between industry and cardiothoracic surgeon-scientists is essential in developing new approaches to treating patients with cardiac disease. The objective of this study is to characterize industry payments to cardiothoracic surgeons as reported by the OPP.

Methods

We used the first wave of Physician Payment Sunshine Act data (August 2013 to December 2013) to assess industry payments made to cardiothoracic surgeons.

Results

Cardiothoracic surgeons (n = 2,495) rec

SUBMITTER: Ahmed R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5183564 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature