Industry Payments to Physician Specialists Who Prescribe Repository Corticotropin

Linking Physician Payments to Quality Care

Medicare physician payments and spending.

The Medicare program's physician payment method is intended to control spending while ensuring beneficiary access to physician services, but there are signs that it may not be working. The physician's role in the health care delivery system as the primary source of information and treatment options, together with growing demand for services and the imperfect state of knowledge about appropriate...

Does legislation reduce harm to doctors who prescribe for themselves?

OBJECTIVE To consider the issue of legislation restricting self prescribing by doctors. METHOD Searches of the medical literature in Medline, Australian Medical Index and CINAHL using the terms 'medical', 'legislation' and 'physician impairment' from 1966-2003 supplemented by checking citations of review papers. RESULTS We found 144 articles, although no trials of legislation. The remaining...

Physician Payments from Industry Are Associated with Greater Medicare Part D Prescribing Costs

BACKGROUND The U.S. Physician Payments Sunshine Act mandates the reporting of payments or items of value received by physicians from drug, medical device, and biological agent manufacturers. The impact of these payments on physician prescribing has not been examined at large scale. METHODS We linked public Medicare Part D prescribing data and Sunshine Act data for 2013. Physician payments wer...

How physician obesity specialists use drugs to treat obesity.

Specialist physicians may have prescribing habits that are different from nonspecialist physicians. Little is known about the prescribing habits of physicians specializing in the treatment of obesity. An anonymous survey was given to the physician members of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians (ASBP). There was a 35% response rate (266 physicians) to the questionnaire that was represen...