Applied Clinical Trials
One of the worrisome aspects of the U.S. Open Payments transparency program is that it may discourage doctors from serving as investigators in clinical studies. The two-year-old program requires public disclosure of payments by drug and medical device manufacturers to health care professionals (HCPs) and teaching hospitals for conducting clinical trials, as well as for marketing and consulting activities. But an anomaly in the program credits to the principal investigator (PI) heading up a research site the full payment for managing and carrying out the study at that site.
