"Fewer Oncologists Have Financial Ties to Pharmaceutical Companies" - Marie Benz
Deborah C. Marshall, MD, Radiation Oncology Resident at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, discusses her research on how open payments have brought sweeping change to medicine by introducing transparency to physician relationships with industry at the 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting. She says, “The study is important because we evaluate trends at the physician-level to explore the impact of Open Payments on how physicians interact with industry, which is difficult to measure.” The most important finding is that oncology physician interactions with industry are decreasing, which is interpreted as being due to the effect of Open Payments.
— Deborah C. Marshall, MD, Resident, Radiation Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai