CMS Open Payments 2019 Released

[Chartreuse Wombat]

Moderators feel free to delete the thread but this is all in the public domain. ALternatively one could put it behind the firewall.

https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/.

Anyone know enough about coding to find out the top 20 Radiation Oncologists in general payments from applicable manufacturers and Group Purchasing Organizations?

In 2018 a radiation oncologist was paid >15M$ from Boston Scientific after it purchased Augmenix (SpaceOAR).

 

[w00tz]

I was paid $86. What am I doing wrong?

 

[kimplera]

I was paid $86. What am I doing wrong?

I evidently received nearly 50K in research funding from genetech - don't recall that...

 

[RickyScott]

336$ here, but never received checks. they must be counting lunches that I stop by for in med onc and sign in .

 

[cancer_doc]

I was paid $86. What am I doing wrong?

You didn't invent SpaceOAR.......

 

[Mandelin Rain]

I wonder how accurate these are. Since we forbade drug reps in the clinic, I haven’t come into contact with any of them for a few years. No lunches, no pens, no nothing. I guess I still get mass marketing letters in the mail, that I just throw away and emails that I delete.

Yet, 7 companies are reporting that they have provided me with compensation. Not a lot, but like $50-150 each. I would definitely remember if I got 150 bucks from some drug company.

Is this just tax fraud on their end? I understand that a few hundred bucks, even multiplied by 5000k radiation oncologists is small potatoes for pharma, but I can’t understand any other justification.

 

[RickyScott]

I wonder how accurate these are. Since we forbade drug reps in the clinic, I haven’t come into contact with any of them for a few years. No lunches, no pens, no nothing. I guess I still get mass marketing letters in the mail, that I just throw away and emails that I delete.

Yet, 7 companies are reporting that they have provided me with compensation. Not a lot, but like $50-150 each. I would definitely remember if I got 150 bucks from some drug company.

Is this just tax fraud on their end? I understand that a few hundred bucks, even multiplied by 5000k radiation oncologists is small potatoes for pharma, but I can’t understand any other justification.

Maybe at a conference, there was a dinner? Strip club or hooker?

 

[deleted774703]

Speaking of money, has anyone seen this? I don't like the idea of someone looking us all up and letting the world see where our money went. It is freely available data, but why are you showing it? This is how we shoot ourselves in the foot. No reason to raise a magnifying glass smh

https://www.redjournal.org/article/S0360-3016(20)30999-8/fulltext

 

[OTN]

Speaking of money, has anyone seen this? I don't like the idea of someone looking us all up and letting the world see where our money went. It is freely available data, but why are you showing it? This is how we shoot ourselves in the foot. No reason to raise a magnifying glass smh

https://www.redjournal.org/article/S0360-3016(20)30999-8/fulltext

That is absolute garbage data that has no place in medical literature.

 

[elementaryschooleconomics]

That is absolute garbage data that has no place in medical literature.

So much noise is published, very little signal...

 

[deleted774703]

That is absolute garbage data that has no place in medical literature.

Agreed. this honestly has me fired up. Pure bs garbage research just to look "novel"

It adds no value whatsoever

 

[Chartreuse Wombat]

That is absolute garbage data that has no place in medical literature.

Young faculty need "pubs" to be promoted. Not much clinically relevant research taking place in Arkansas I guess

 

[thecarbonionangle]

Young faculty need "pubs" to be promoted. Not much clinically relevant research taking place in Arkansas I guess

No a very “happening” place if you could not tell by the name