Evaluation of Industry Payments to US Advanced Practice Clinicians in 2021.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Advanced practice clinicians (APCs) are a growing part of the US health care system, and their financial relationships with pharmaceutical and medical device companies have not been well studied.

Objectives

To examine the value, frequency, and types of payments made to APCs and the association of state scope-of-practice laws with these payments.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used 2021 Open Payments Program data to analyze payments from pharmaceutical or medical device companies to physicians or APCs between January 1 and December 31, 2021. Doctors of medicine and osteopathy were categorized as physicians, and nurse practitioners, physician assistants, clinical nurse specialists, certified registered nurse anesthetists, certifi

SUBMITTER: Singh A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9674997 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature