To view the Open Payments physician payment dataset, click here: www.cms.gov/openpayments
SUNSHINE ACT DISCLOSURES OFF TO CLOUDY START (Orthopedics This Week)
Ready or not and 33% incomplete, CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) released the first round of Open Payments data on September 30, 2014.
The big news?
Big Pharma Rules
We did a quick review of the 4.4 million payments for a total of $3.5 billion paid to 546,000 individual physicians and almost 1,360 teaching hospitals for the last five months of 2013 and found most of it came from Big Pharma and heart device makers.
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The Orthopedics Industry 
