Feds to Publicize Drug and Device Company Payments to Doctors Next Year - ProPublica

by Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber
ProPublica, Feb. 1, 2013, 4:25 p.m.

The release of payments data in September 2014 would mark a milestone in the push to bring transparency to medicine. Once posted, patients will be able to see if their physicians receive money from any of the companies whose products they prescribe. Studies have shown that such payments, however small, bias physicians towards companies and their products.

Until now, ProPublica's Dollars for Docs tool [2] has been the only freely available source for the public to search and analyze the payments made since 2009

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