Assessment of the gender gap in urology industry payments: An Open Payments Program data analysis.

Purpose: The Open Payments Program (OPP), established in 2013 under the Sunshine Act, mandated medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers to submit records of financial incentives given to physicians for public availability. The study aims to characterize the gap in real general and real research payments between man and woman urologists.

Materials And Methods: The study sample included all urologists in the United States who received at least one general or research payment in the OPP database from 2015 to 2021.