Its completely free and run by Medicare.
However, roughly half of the physicians had published no research related to the topics they were endorsing.
But the website for looking up payments to American doctors isnt just about endorsements.
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The website is calledOpen Paymentsand is run by the Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services.
For example, you could plug in any celebrity doctor and see which companies might be giving them money.
Pinsky didnt immediately reply to a message sent through his website on Thursday.
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To be clear, its not necessarily wrong or shady when doctors get payments from Big Pharma companies.
Firms that develop new drugs and introduce new medical devices are doing important work.
But it can be tremendously useful to know whos getting paid by whom in every aspect of life.
Screenshot: OpenPaymentsData.cms.gov
Its not just celebrity doctors with data available on the Open Payments website.
The Open Payments website alsohas a videoexplaining what you’re able to learn by using this tool.
Doctors received $12.58 billion in compensation from healthcare companies in 2022, according to the Open Payments website.
The site has over 80 million records accounting for $68.44 billion dating back several years.
And, again, none of this is necessarily evidence doctors are doing anything wrong by getting paid.
Because all of the available evidence suggests its actually making us sicker.
They had failed to report theyd received compensation for their promotions in the posts.
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