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- Title
Industry Payments to Physicians for Opioid Products, 2013-2015.
- Authors
Hadland, Scott E.; Krieger, Maxwell S.; Marshall, Brandon D. L.
- Abstract
Objectives. To identify payments that involved opioid products from the pharmaceutical industry to physicians. Methods. We used the Open Payments program database from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to identify payments involving an opioid to physicians between August 2013 and December 2015. We used medians, interquartile ranges, and ranges as a result of heavily skewed distributions to examine payments according to opioid product, abuse-deterrent formulation, nature of payment, state, and physician specialty. Results. During the study, 375 266 nonresearch opioid-related payments were made to 68 177 physicians, totaling $46 158 388. The top 1% of physicians received 82.5% of total payments in dollars. Abuse-deterrent formulations constituted 20.3% of total payments, and buprenorphine marketed for addiction treatment constituted 9.9%. Most payments were for speaking fees or honoraria (63.2% of all dollars), whereas food and beverage payments were the most frequent (93.9% of all payments). Physicians specializing in anesthesiology received the most in total annual payments (median = $50; interquartile range = $16-$151). Conclusions. Approximately 1 in 12 US physicians received a payment involving an opioid during the 29-month study. These findings should prompt an examination of industry influences on opioid prescribing.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PHYSICIANS; DRUG therapy; OPIOIDS; PHARMACEUTICAL industry finance; PAYMENT; DRUG prescribing; ANESTHESIOLOGISTS; SPEAKING fees; BUPRENORPHINE; ECONOMICS; 21ST century economics; CENTERS for Medicare &; Medicaid Services (U.S.); PHARMACEUTICAL industry &; economics; SUBSTANCE abuse prevention; ANESTHESIOLOGY; DATABASES; DRUG addiction; MARKETING; NARCOTICS; PHARMACEUTICAL chemistry; PHYSICIAN practice patterns; COST analysis; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2017, Vol 107, Issue 9, p1493
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.2017.303982