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Transparency Program Obscures Pharma Payments to Nurses, Physician Assistants
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Jul 6, 2015 - 2:10:06 PM

(HealthNewsDigest.com) - In June, a nurse practitioner in Connecticut pleaded guilty to taking $83,000 in kickbacks from a drug company in exchange for prescribing its high-priced treatment. But you won't find evidence of this in the federal government's data released Tuesday on payments by drug and device companies to doctors and teaching hospitals, ProPublica's Charles Ornstein writes.
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That's because the federal Physician Payment Sunshine Act doesn't require companies to publicly report payments to nurse practitioners or physician assistants, even though they're allowed to write prescriptions in most states. 

Key takeaways from Ornstein's report:


More in the full story here: http://www.propublica.org/article/transparency-program-obscures-pharma-payments-nurses-physician-assistants.


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