CMS Provides an "Update on Open Payments Reporting" at CBI Transparency and Aggregate Spend Conference

Hundreds of people flocked to Washington, DC this week for a three-day conference on Open Payments reporting and associated state and international transparency initiatives. CBI’s Ninth Annual Transparency and Aggregate Spend Conference featured keynote speaker Doug Brown, the Group Director of the Data Sharing & Partnership Group in the Center for Program Integrity at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Brown has been a familiar face to those working in the aggregate spend space, and this year provided a recap of some improvements his agency has made to the Open Payments system, a summary of the physician payment data CMS recently published, and a forecast about what’s coming next for manufacturers.    Updates and Improvements Brown first walked through improvements that CMS has made to the Open Payments reporting process. “The biggest highlight,” he noted, was that 98 percent of reported records were accepted. This is a dramatic improvement over the 2013 reporting period, where a large percentage of payments were rejected and “de-identified” in the initial public database. The improved acceptance rate was due to a number of improvements CMS put into place, including making updates to its matching logic to combine the NPPES and PECOS database, and creating a validated physician list for companies to reference when submitting physician information. Brown noted that validation issues may still remain regarding students ...
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