Public Awareness of and Contact With Physicians Who Receive Industry Payments: A National Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Physician Payments Sunshine Act, part of the Affordable Care Act, requires pharmaceutical and medical device firms to report payments they make to physicians and, through its Open Payments program, makes this information publicly available.

Objective

To establish estimates of the exposure of the American patient population to physicians who accept industry payments, to compare these population-based estimates to physician-based estimates of industry contact, and to investigate Americans' awareness of industry payments.

Design

Cross-sectional survey conducted in late September and early October 2014, with data linkage of respondents' physicians to Open Payments data.

Participants

A total of 3542 adults drawn from a large, nationally representative

SUBMITTER: Pham-Kanter G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5481229 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature