New Jersey Interactive “Transparency” Map

NJ Spotlight, a website that highlights “news issues and insight for New Jersey” recently created an interactive map of New Jersey doctors who received transfers of value from industry in 2015. The map, which can be found here, allows interested readers to see payments by zip code and details on those doctors who received the most money on the map, in addition to individual payments to doctors by searching the databases that are arranged by last names. According to the United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), New Jersey doctors and hospitals received nearly $59 million last year from drug companies and device makers in gifts, travel, royalties, and consulting/other fees. Of that money, doctors received more than $56 million, while forty-seven hospitals received roughly $2.8 million. In addition to the interactive map, NJ Spotlight also dissected the payments made to physicians and arranged them in lists, by physician last name. Letters A-L and hospital payments can be found here, while letters M-Z can be found here. Hospital Receipts Hackensack University Medical Center was the hospital that received the most in payments - $791,980 – with almost $600,000 of that in payments from Intuitive Surgical, Inc., maker of the da Vinci robotic surgery system. That roughly $600,000 in payments were paid primarily as rental or facility fees. Morristown Medical Center received $550,000, more than half in the form of grants, with the largest amount (almost...
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