CMS overhauls doctor payment website

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has relaunched its Open Payment website. The general impression is that the new site is worlds easier to navigate than its original launch.

The site has reported that in the last five months of 2013, a total of $3.5 billion payments were made to doctors on behalf of drug and medical device companies, according to this report from the Wall Street Journal.

 

 

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Richard Heller III, MD, RSNA board member and senior VP of policy at Radiology Partners, offers an overview of policies in Congress that are directly impacting imaging.