When they’re not treating patients, holding office hours or performing surgeries, many doctors are working second jobs … as inventors. And according to a report in this week’s Atlanta Business Chronicle, it’s paying off.
Doctors in Georgia received $59 million in non-research medical payments and services in 2015, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which has tracked and published these numbers for the past three years. The goal is increased transparency for patients in understanding how corporate payments to physicians might be influencing the care they receive, such as favoring one drug or device over another — a core concern in today’s tangled health care environment.
But these payments aren’t usually nefarious, as demonstrated by Georgia’s top-ranking doctors, who are focused on innovation, not entertainment.
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