Monday, 20 April 2015
quote [ Sometimes, doctors and hospitals have financial relationships with health care manufacturing companies. These relationships can include money for research activities, gifts, speaking fees, meals, or travel... Open Payments is the federally run program that collects the information about these financial relationships and makes it available to you. ]
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EDIT: The information is currently only searchable up to 2013, they're working on the more recent info.
Small amounts of money for food or travel reimbursement may not taint a doctor's judgement, but transparency keeps the system in check.