Dislike the Open Payments regulations (also known as the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) that are part of the Affordable Care Act? In a blog post for Health Affairs, Anita Griner, deputy director of the Data Sharing and Partnership Group at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Center for Program Integrity, explains why the regulations are a good idea and the burden they may create on physicians and manufacturers is likely overstated.

Regardless of whether you favor or disaprove of Open Payment regulations, reading Griner's position is interesting as she pushes back against critics and raises concerns that too few manufacturers appear to be fully aware of the new regulations.

Far from being the "boondoggle for accountants, compliance bureaucrats and the legions of lawyers whom companies will hire to interpret and manage the regulations,” as the Open Payments regulations were called in a 2013 column in The Wall Street Journal, the program is in Griner's view both good medicine and good policy.