Last year, 100 Oregon doctors received $9 million from drug manufacturers and medical device makers.
This information comes courtesy of the Sunshine Act, a component of the Affordable Care Act that went into effect in 2013 and requires all industry payments to be reported to a public database. All told, $2.6 billion in non-research payments for everything from royalties to travel were made by drug and device developers to U.S. teaching hospitals and physicians in 2015.
The Sunshine Act was designed…
Last year, 100 Oregon doctors received $9 million from drug manufacturers and medical device makers.
This information comes courtesy of the Sunshine Act, a component of the Affordable Care Act that went into effect in 2013 and requires all industry payments to be reported to a public database. All told, $2.6 billion in non-research payments for everything from royalties to travel were made by drug and device developers to U.S. teaching hospitals and physicians in 2015.
The Sunshine Act was designed…