Physician characteristics, industry transfers, and pharmaceutical prescribing: Empirical evidence from medicare and the physician payment sunshine act.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate physician characteristics associated with pharmaceutical industry transfers and prescribing behavior after public reporting under the Sunshine Act.

Data sources

2014-2016 secondary data on industry transfers to physicians from the Open Payments Dataset supplemented with Medicare Part D prescription data, Medicare service data, and practice attributes from the Physician Compare Database.

Study design

Using regression analysis with county/physician fixed effects, this study examines characteristics associated with the probability/magnitude of transfers and the association between transfers and prescriptions.

Data collection

Using an iterative matching approach, this study identifies physicians who delivered outpatient Medicare services in 20

SUBMITTER: Brunt CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6505404 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature