CMS Open Payments is expanding in 2021 to include five new provider types

Posted over 3 years ago by Brian Lauf

What Nevada PAs need to know:

Open Payments is a national disclosure program from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that promotes a more financially transparent and accountable healthcare system.
Drug and medical device companies must report to CMS payments or transfers of value they make to certain healthcare providers and teaching hospitals for research, meals, travel, gifts, speaking fees, and more.
Each year, CMS makes the data available so the public can see it at openpaymentsdata.cms.gov.
CMS’s role is to collect and publish information submitted by reporting entities. CMS does not offer an opinion on what financial relationships may cause conflicts of interest. Simply, CMS publishes the data for public use and interpretation.

What Nevada PAs should do:

Be mindful of the Open Payments Program expansion, knowing that in 2021 certain payments or transfers of value made to you by a company that meets the definition of a reporting entity (applicable manufacturer or applicable GPO) will be reportable for the purpose of Open Payments.
Stay connected with the program so you are ready to register to review your data in the calendar year 2022. Registration and review of your data are voluntary and encouraged as this ensures the accuracy of the Open Payments data.

Open Payments will include five new provider types (Physician assistants, Nurse practitioners, Clinical nurse specialists, certified registered nurse anesthetists & Anesthesiologist assistants, Certified nurse-midwives) in response to statutory changes outlined in the SUPPORT Act. Effective January 1, 2021, reporting entities' data collection will include these additional program participants.

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