Researchers establish link between higher providers’ industry payments and increased healthcare costs

News-Medical.Net September 20, 2019
Reviewed by James Ives, M.Psych. (Editor)

A multi-disciplinary research team at Indiana Univerity has established an association between higher industry payments to health care providers and higher medical and drug costs for patients. Their findings, titled “Open data on industry payments to healthcare providers reveal potential hidden costs to the public,” will be published Friday, Sept. 20, in Nature Communications.

Healthcare industry players often make payments to medical providers for non-research expenses. While it is known that these payments may pose conflicts of interest, their relationship with overall healthcare costs remains largely unknown. In this study, we linked Open Payments data on providers’ industry payments with Medicare data...

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