MP48-17 INDUSTRY PAYMENTS TO UROLOGISTS SINCE THE SUNSHINE ACT

摘要: INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE The Open Payments Program (OPP) was established in 2013 under the Sunshine Act which mandated that medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers submit record of any financial incentive given to physicians to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in order to be made publicly available. The study aim is to characterize general (ie, non-research) payments to urologists over the first 8 full years of OPP data. METHODS The study sample included all urologists in the US who received at least one general payment in the OPP database from 2014 to 2021. Payments were analyzed by geography, payment type, physician, and industry payer with nominal payments adjusted to the base year’s US dollar using the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index–Urban (CPI-U). RESULTS Real payments totaling 254,659,868.24weremadeto14 …