Sunshine act database adds more clinicians.

[Splenda88]

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More clinicians (PA, NP, CRNA etc...) can be searched in the database starting in 2022.

Open Payments Newly Added Covered Recipients | CMS

Open Payments expanded in 2021* to include five new provider types: physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, certified registered nurse anesthetists and anesthesiologist assistants, and certified nurse-midwives. Effective January 1, 2021, reporting entities' data...

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[Redpancreas]

More clinicians (PA, NP, CRNA etc...) can be searched in the database starting in 2022.

Open Payments Newly Added Covered Recipients | CMS

Open Payments expanded in 2021* to include five new provider types: physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, certified registered nurse anesthetists and anesthesiologist assistants, and certified nurse-midwives. Effective January 1, 2021, reporting entities' data...

www.cms.gov

Seems like someone interesting to discuss. What is your take @Splenda88

 

[Splenda88]

Seems like someone interesting to discuss. What is your take @Splenda88

I just think they should have been included from the get-go. Physicians, podiatrists and dentists are not the only prescribers in healthcare who accept things from big pharma.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

I just think they should have been included from the get-go. Physicians, podiatrists and dentists are not the only prescribers in healthcare who accept things from big pharma.

Considering independent NPs are 20x more likely to prescribe opioids than supervised NPs and physicians and are more likely to prescribe brand name medications, it’s a travesty to patients they haven’t been included until now.

 

[Gilakend]

Considering independent NPs are 20x more likely to prescribe opioids than supervised NPs and physicians and are more likely to prescribe brand name medications, it’s a travesty to patients they haven’t been included until now.

Is this a real stat?

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

Is this a real stat?

Yes.

Opioid Prescribing by Primary Care Providers: a Cross-Sectional Analysis of Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant, and Physician Prescribing Patterns - PubMed

“Among 222,689 primary care providers, 3.8% of MDs, 8.0% of NPs, and 9.8% of PAs met at least one definition of overprescribing. 1.3% of MDs, 6.3% of NPs, and 8.8% of PAs prescribed an opioid to at least 50% of patients. NPs/PAs practicing in states with independent prescription authority were > 20 times more likely to overprescribe opioids than NPs/PAs in prescription-restricted states.”