New data shows that nineteen teaching hospitals and 11,016
physicians in CT received payments from drug and device manufacturers last
year. Open Payments, the
searchable federal data source, was created by the Affordable Care Act which
requires that drug and device manufacturers disclose payments to physicians and
teaching hospitals. While every CT hospital received some funds, Yale-New
Haven, Hartford and CT Children’s Medical Center together received 72% of the $8.34
million state total for last year. The payments to hospitals were for both
research projects and grants. Nationally physicians and teaching hospitals were
paid $6.5
billion by drug and device makers. Physicians working in nuclear medicine
received the highest average among specialties. It’s easy to search Open Payments to
learn if and how much your doctor or hospital was paid.
