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title: "Evaluating Geospatial and Temporal Trends in Payments to Primary Care Physicians in the United States"
author: "Meredith Brown"
date: "2022-04-16T01:40:17Z"
link: "https://bookdown.org/mjbrown375/thesis/"
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Evaluating Geospatial and Temporal Trends in Payments to Primary Care Physicians in the United States [...] The Sunshine Act led to the recent availability of comprehensive data on pharmaceutical industry payments to hospitals and physicians via the Open Payments system. Primary care physicians are the chief way many Americans interact with the healthcare industry. However, there is not much literature on the relationship between these gateway physicians and the pharmaceutical industry. This study analyzes data from the Open Payments system from 2015-2020 for payment characteristic, ...
