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Editor's Note
July 8, 2019

Industry Payments and Physician Prescribing

Author Affiliations
  • 1Editor at Large, JAMA Internal Medicine
JAMA Intern Med. 2019;179(10):1428-1429. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.1081

The Open Payments database at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services continues to shine a bright light on the association between industry payments to physicians by drug and medical device companies and prescribing. In this issue of JAMA Internal Medicine, 2 Research Letters examine the association between these payments and physician prescribing in diverse fields—biologic medications for inflammatory bowel diseases1 and gabapentinoids for various conditions, including seizure disorders and postherpetic neuralgia.2

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