Medical groups lobbying for fewer OpenPayments requirements

The American Medical Association and the American College of Radiology are among the groups pushing members of Congress to roll back laws requiring groups to disclose financial ties to doctors in the federal government’s OpenPayments database.

For more on where these provisions have been tucked into larger pieces of healthcare legislation, click on the link below: 

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