https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/s-wtr030617.php
More than three in every five Americans see a doctor who receives some form of payment from industry. This is according to a new survey led by Genevieve Pham-Kanter of Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health in the US. It is the first nationally representative study to examine the prevalence of industry payments among the general population of patients.
[...] The survey was done in light of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which addresses concerns that industry payments could lead physicians to make decisions that are not in the best interest of their patients. Since 2013 the Act requires pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers to report gifts and payments they make to healthcare providers. This information is publicly available on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Open Payments website.
[...] The survey highlighted that 65 percent of respondents had visited a physician who accepted an industry payment. This was particularly the case for those visiting family medicine physicians (63 percent) and obstetricians and gynecologists (77 percent).
The Open Payments website can be found at: https://www.cms.gov/OpenPayments/index.html
References:
Pham-Kanter, G. , Mello, M., Lehmann, L., Campbell, E., Carpenter, D. (2017). Public Awareness of and Contact with Physicians Who Receive Industry Payments: A National Survey, Journal of General Internal Medicine, DOI: 10.1007/s11606-017-4012-3
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday March 09 2017, @12:58AM (1 child)
It is a waste of federal money to have government employees conduct studies that span multiple diverse states, when each state knows what's best.
It is a waste of state money to have government employees conduct studies that span multiple diverse counties, when each county knows what's best.
It is a waste of county money to have government employees conduct studies that span multiple diverse cities, when each city knows what's best.
Cities have no money to spare.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @01:16AM
Let me guess, you live in the 'burbs, or maybe in a nice pastoral rural setting, far from the madding and perennially over-studied crowd...
I do, for sure! City living was fun when I was younger, but not anymore.