On Thursday, June 30, 2022, the Open Payments Program published its 2021 data. In 2021, the program expanded its provider types to include:

• Physician Assistants,
• Nurse Practitioners,
• Clinical Nurse Specialists,
• Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists,
• Anesthesiologist Assistants,
• and Certified Nurse Midwives,

in addition to:

• Doctors of Medicine or Osteopathic Medicine (excluding Medical Residents),
• Doctors of Dental Medicine or Dental Surgery,
• Doctors of Podiatric Medicine,
• Doctors of Optometry,
• and Chiropractors.

The Open Payments program provides transparency into financial relationships between applicable manufacturers and group purchasing organizations (GPOs) and health care providers (physicians and teaching hospitals). The program makes the data available to the public to shed light on payments and other transfers of value that take place each year.

You can access the data at Open Payments. For compliance and audit purposes, it is important that what was disclosed under your name and what you disclosed to the University are a match.

We encourage you to check the data disclosed under your name against what you disclosed on the 2022 disclosure form and make any corrections needed as soon as possible.

NOTE: when the total of payments reported by Open Payments from a single entity is under $5,000 it is not required to report them in your annual disclosure to the University.

For more information and resources, please visit Open Payments or contact Gus Fernandez-Wolff.