The Physician Payment Sunshine Act

Aligning your health system's conflict of interest policies with the Physician Payment Sunshine Act.

A physician-driven solution--the Association for Medical Ethics, the Physician Payment Sunshine Act, and ethical challenges in pain medicine.

The practice of contemporary pain medicine is laced with a number of significant ethical challenges. Considerable difficulties include the overutilization of interventional procedures, the application of under-evidenced treatment modalities, and potentially superfluous opioid prescribing. As with many other fields in medicine, including orthopedic surgery, relationships with industry are both c...

A unique researcher identifier for the Physician Payments Sunshine Act.

THE PHYSICIAN PAYMENTS SUNSHINE ACT (PPSA) PROMises a new era of transparency for the US health care system. Signed into law on March 23, 2010, the PPSA is part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009. The PPSA requires medical product companies to report to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) a range of “transfers of value” to covered recipients (physicians and...

A systematic review of state and manufacturer physician payment disclosure websites: implications for implementation of the Sunshine Act.

Under the Physician Payment Sunshine Act (PPSA), payments to physicians from pharmaceutical, biologics, and medical device manufacturers will be disclosed on a national, publicly available website. To inform the development of the federal website, we evaluated 21 existing state and industry disclosure websites. The presentation formats and language used suggest that industry websites are aimed ...

Act II of the Sunshine Act

To coincide with the introduction in the United States of the Sunshine Act, Genevieve Pham-Kanter discusses what we need to look for to fight hidden bias and deliberate or unconscious corruption. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.