Impact of the Affordable Care Act's Physician Payments Sunshine Act on branded statin prescribing.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the impact of the Affordable Care Act's Physician Payments Sunshine Act (PPSA), which mandates disclosure of industry payments to physicians, on physician prescribing of branded statins.

Data sources

Administrative claims data from 2011 to 2015 from three large national commercial insurers were provided by the Health Care Cost Institute.

Study design

We adopted a difference-in-differences and event study design, leveraging the control group of physicians in two states, MA and VT, which implemented state laws on disclosure of industry payments prior to the national PPSA. To further address potential confounding caused by differences in prescribing patterns across states, our analytical sample includes physicians practicing in border counties betwe

SUBMITTER: Li J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9441271 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature