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Open Payments Having an Adverse Effect on Physician-Rep Relationships
Open Payments, a program created by the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (part of the Affordable Care Act) has started to come…
HHS Issues Open Government Plan
On October 6, 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced its fourth Open Government Plan, which details…
Webinar: Open Payments Retrospect and Looking Forward
On October 13, 2016, qordata will be hosting a webinar, “Retrospect and Looking Forward: A Review of Two Full Years of Open…
Deep Dive Analysis of 2017 Proposed Physician Fee Schedule
As we previously covered, in July CMS released its annual proposed updates to the Physician Fee Schedule. There are a number of…
New Jersey Interactive “Transparency” Map
NJ Spotlight, a website that highlights “news issues and insight for New Jersey” recently created an interactive map of New Jersey…
How Dollars for Docs Hospital Connection Was Formed
Recently, we were treated to a series of articles by ProPublica promoting the nefarious physician and hospital ties with industry.…
Dollars for Doc’s Media Bomb – Examples of Expanding a Story on Hospitals
(Picture from ProPublica Dollars for Doctors)
The release in late June of the Open Payments data for 2015, received very…
CMS Hosts Special Open Door Forum
On Tuesday, August 2, 2016, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hosted a Special Open Door Forum. The Special…
CMS Hosting Special Open Door Forum on Open Payments and the 2017 Physician…
On August 2, 2016, at 1:30 pm EST, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments Program will…
CMS Proposed Physician Fee Schedule 2017 – Includes Open Payments Questions
CMS released its proposed Physician Fee Schedule on July 7, including a section on Open Payments. CMS notes it does not…