Open Payments Database Available for Physician Review February 13, 2015 Health Care Reform, Physician Resource Sunshine Act, CMS Enterprise Portal, Open Payments 0 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) announced last week that it will make the Open Payments database available to physicians to review records provided by drug and medical device companies. The Open Payments database is a part of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, a provision of the Affordable Care Act. Drug and medical device manufacturers are required to report their financial interactions with licensed physicians – including consulting fees, travel reimbursements, research grants and other gifts. Any payments, ownership interests and other “transfers of value” will be reported to CMS for publication in the online database. 2014 payment data and updates to 2013 data will be published in June. SFMS encourages physicians to register for the Open Payments portal to review and dispute any incorrect data. Physicians should be aware that there is a two-step registration process for the Open Payments program. Step 1 requires physicians to register at the CMS Enterprise Portal, a step many physicians may have already completed as the gateway enables access to a number of other CMS programs. Step 2 is to register in CMS’ Open Payments system. Comments are closed.
