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Título: CMS Updates Open Payments Data
Fecha: 19-12-2014
On December 19, 2014, CMS added approximately 68,000 payment records – valued at more than $200 million – to the Open Payments data set. With this new data, Open Payments now reports information on $3.7 billion in payments and transfers of value to up to 546,000 individual physicians and up to 1,360 teaching hospitals. Like the 2013 data initially published on September 30, 2014, this refresh of data includes a partial data collection period of five months (August 1 through December 31, 2013).
Every year, CMS will update the Open Payments data at least once after its initial publication. The refreshed data will include updates to data disputes and other data corrections made since the initial publication of this data documenting payments or transfers of value to physicians and teaching hospitals, and physician ownership and investment interests. This financial data was submitted by applicable manufacturers and applicable group purchasing organizations (GPOs). The accuracy of all data included in this update has been attested to by the submitting applicable manufacturer or GPO.
Prior to the publication of the data on September 30, 2014, physicians and teaching hospitals were given the opportunity to register with the Open Payments system to review and dispute data submitted about them by applicable manufacturers and applicable GPOs. Approximately 9,000 records were disputed by physicians and teaching hospitals during the review period held earlier this year. These disputed payment records were temporarily withheld from the Open Payments website. With this data refresh though, those records are now part of the Open Payments dataset.
The approximately 68,000 payment records added on December 19 to the Open Payments dataset were not published in the initial release on September 30 for one of the following reasons:
1. The record was still under dispute at the end of the physician and teaching hospital review period (September 11, 2014); or
2. Records attested to on the last day of the data submission period for the 2013 program year (July 7, 2014) were inadvertently excluded from publication (however, they were still included in the full 45-day review and dispute process).
The data is displayed publicly in this manner:
- Disputes that remained unresolved by October 31, 2014 are marked as “disputed.”
- Disputes that were resolved by October 31, 2014, are published with no dispute noted.
Because all data must be available for a 45-day physician and teaching hospital review period before publication, the following records will not be posted in the December updated data; they will be available for review in early 2015 (by March 31), and then posted by June 30, 2015:
- Any records resolved by a change to the identifying information of the reported physician or teaching hospital,
- Any records submitted to the Open Payments system for the first time at the end of the submission window for the 2013 program year (July 7, 2014), and
- Any modifications to records currently on display, made after October 31, 2014.
The refreshed data does not include the identification of any of the records published with de-identified physician or teaching hospital information on September 30. The updated data does include some new de-identified data.
CMS will publish the full calendar year of 2014 financial data by June 30, 2015, which will also include the missing identification of the de-identified data from 2013.
Note: Due to the ongoing actions taken by applicable manufacturers and applicable GPOs, such as deletions, additions, and corrections within the Open Payments system, the data shared here are subject to change. Information shared is reflective of Open Payments data as of December 19, 2014.
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