Futurity November 3, 2022
Payments made to physicians totaled $1.75 billion while payments to advanced practice clinicians totaled $119 million. (Credit: Getty Images)
A new study finds that advanced practice clinicians received more payments from drug companies, while physicians accepted more funds from medical device companies.
The same proportion of each group accepted payments, but the physicians received a much greater sum, report the researchers.
Advanced practice clinicians include nurse practitioners, physician assistants, certified registered nurse anesthetists, anesthesiologist assistants, certified nurse midwives, and clinical nurse specialists.
The federal government has been tracking industry payments from pharmaceutical and medical device companies to doctors since 2013, but last year was the first time such numbers were tracked for advanced practice clinicians.
The findings appear in JAMA....
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