


Ravichandran, Jennifer Kotwal, Kamna Jethmalani, Srikanthĭarshan, Auditya, Lakshmi Rai, Sindhu Tolani Ramesh Aravind, Jennifer Kotwal, Daisy Bopanna, AniruddhĬ. Vishnuvardhan, Auditya, Prema, Kiran Rathod Upendra, Jennifer Kotwal, Shashikumar, Umashree

Vivek Bidu, Nagendra Urs, Daksha, Kangana, Harish Rai Ramesh Aravind, Rahul Dev, Sakshi Shivanand, Baby Shreya Yagna Shetty, Shankar Aryan, Narayana Swamy Vishnuvardhan, Ramesh Aravind, Gurukiran, Prema, Umashree Upendra, Sathyaraj, Neha Pendse, Umashree Paartha, Sowmya, Chetan, Doddanna, Master Anand Including those who do not accept Medicare insurance.Naveen Mayur, Arathi Puri, Shobhraj, Shikka, Devan This data contains detailed records about payments and other transfers of value from pharmaceutical and medical device companies to doctors.Īlthough the Open Payments program is administered by Medicare, it covers almost all doctors in the United States, We encourage users to discuss this information with their doctors.ĭata in this section is calculated using Open Payments data, collected by Medicare as part of the Affordable Care Act. To help users assess potential conflicts of interest. Therefore, in addition to showing the payments information, we provide some context, such as the median amount for doctors of that specialty, However, CareDash does not believe that these transfers of value necessarily mean a doctor is ethically compromised.Įating sponsored food at conferences and speaking on behalf of pharmaceutical companies are not the same thing.įurther, we believe that there are doctors who have success with companies' products, get paid to speak about them,Īnd are still foremost devoted to successful patient outcomes. government collects and publishes these records due to concerns about conflicts of interest. Some examples include:Ĭonsulting fees that companies pay to doctors, to get their input about their products and researchĬompanies paying doctors to speak about their products at conferencesĬompanies taking doctors out to dinner to tell them about a new drug or medical deviceĬompanies paying for travel, hotel rooms, and food at medical conferences

government collects extensive records about these relationships. This section shows the financial relationships between doctors and pharmaceutical and medical device companies. More questions? You can always contact us. Always check with your doctor before making any decisions. It may also be skewed towards procedures more common among Medicare beneficiaries than the general population.Ī lack of detection does not necessarily mean a lack of expertise, just that it was not visible within this dataset. The data is limited to Medicare beneficiaries, meaning that physicians that do not accept Medicare (<10% of all physicians) will be excluded. While this data can provide a wealth of knowledge, it comes with certain limitations. These procedures go into this section in order to help consumers make more informed choices. Using this data, we can detect when doctors perform certain procedures more frequently than similar providers. It includes aggregate information about the procedures performed by different providers. This feature uses Medicare data to determine how often a provider performs a procedure relative to other providers in their state also performing the same procedure.ĭata in this section is calculated using Medicare Physician and Other Supplier Data, which provides records of Medicare utilization throughout the United States. This section highlights the procedures that Dr.
