Industry payments to psychiatrists remain poorly characterized. Using data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the authors of this repeated cross-sectional study detail the extent and concentration of nonresearch industry payments to psychiatrists from 2015 to 2021. The proportion of psychiatrists receiving industry payments, payment distribution, and payment concentration among psychiatrists was assessed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To compare industry payment patterns among US psychiatrists and psychiatric advanced practice clinicians (APCs) and determine how scope of practice laws has influenced these patterns.
Design: Cross-sectional study.
Setting: This study used the publicly available US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Sunshine Act Open Payment database and the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) database for the year 2021.
More than $100 billion in Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funding was intended to support financially stressed health care providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The distribution of the CARES Act's Provider Relief Fund among psychiatrists is poorly understood. Analyzing funding received by 2,593 psychiatric care organizations (PCOs), the authors found that funding was more equally distributed across care organizations of different sizes in psychiatry versus other specialties.
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