Company Payments To Teaching Hospitals Hard To Distinguish In Open Payments

Both manufacturers and hospital-system personnel are complaining to CMS that payments by firms to non-teaching hospitals are becoming confused with payments to teaching hospitals in the public Open Payments database.

Manufacturers are having a hard time figuring out if payments they make to general, non-teaching hospitals are being wrongfully attributed to teaching hospitals in the Open Payments system operated by the US Medicare agency.

The confusion is cropping up particularly in cases when facilities of the two types are owned by the same umbrella...

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