While the goals of Open Payments and transparency are arguably good public policy, the usefulness of Open Payments depends entirely on the quality of the underlying data. This paper explores some of challenges found in the 2015 data set that negatively impact that usefulness.
The literature provides many attractive and compelling visualizations of the Center for Medicare and Medical Services (CMS) Open Payments Data in a variety of contexts and media. Current business intelligence software and related graphics applications do an excellent job of rendering the data.
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