Abstract:The health care system has entered a new era of sunshine about financial conflicts. Disclosure, an increasingly favored regulatory approach, significantly expanded with enactment of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, the first comprehensive federal legislation mandating public reporting of payments between industry and medicine. But is it making any difference? And what is all the increased disclosure actually revealing? This article critically analyzes the mixed experience with the Sunshine Act, what has be… Show more
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