Provider Confidence in Open Payments Program Accuracy Is Flagging, AMA Says

With the Sept. 30 deadline nearing for the public release of Sunshine Act information, providers and health-care attorneys are growing less confident of the accuracy of the data and the overall efficiency of the Open Payments program, industry stakeholders say.

A spokeswoman for the American Medical Association told Bloomberg BNA Aug. 4 that physicians are having a hard time reviewing and disputing potentially inaccurate payment data about them that has been provided to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services by pharmaceutical companies and group purchasing organizations (GPOs).

Physicians have until Aug. 27 to dispute any inaccurate data, and “we ...