Docs brace for sunshine as industry gifts go public (FierceMedicalDevices)
Starting this month, medical device and drug companies are disclosing every dollar they pay doctors, whether to recoup a meal or bankroll a clinical trial, and rising scrutiny has some physicians rethinking their relationships with the industry.
As The Wall Street Journal reports, thanks to the Affordable Care Act's sunshine provision, companies are reporting their transactions with physicians to the feds, and, come September 2014, those names and figures will end up on a searchable public website maintained by the Cent...