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JAMA: Will physician financial transparency offer Sunshine or shade?

Top Stories | Wednesday, February 15
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As a means to dismember conflicts of interest within medicine, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)  now requires greater financial transparency between industry and physicians. Thanks to the Sunshine Act included as a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, industry will be required to divulge payments to physicians and academic medical centers on public websites. Two viewpoints published online Feb. 14 in the Journal of the American Medical Association questioned the rule’s feasibility and benefit.
 

Four payors pool data to assess nationwide costs, utilization

Top Stories | Wednesday, September 21
The Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI), a health research initiative led by payors Aetna, Humana, Kaiser Permanente and UnitedHealthcare, was launched to allow researchers and policymakers access to a collection of health plan and government payor data. The HCCI said this initiative will offer new insights into healthcare costs, utilization and intensity, as well as inform the public policy process and assist in developing new solutions to long-term problems confronting the healthcare system.