Table 1:
Assigned Category | Total Number of Payments | Mean Payment Size | Median Payment Size | Payment Total Amount (USD) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Payment Type | (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) |
Consulting Fee | Compensation | 2, 247 | 2, 370 | 2, 000 | 5, 325, 818 |
Compensation for services | Compensation | 27, 426 | 2, 275 | 2, 400 | 62, 397, 361 |
Travel and Lodging | Travel | 18,076 | 260 | 112 | 4, 695, 838 |
Education | Food | 30, 208 | 36 | 9 | 1, 095, 886 |
Food and Beverage | Food | 1, 759, 889 | 17 | 13 | 29, 295, 620 |
Notes: Payments for NOAC drugs to sampled physicians, 2014–2016. Rows are shown in descending order of mean payment size. The “Payment Type” column lists the payment category as reported in the Open Payments Database. The “Assigned Category” describes our groupings of these types into three categories based on payment size. We label these categories based on the most common payment type: Compensation, Travel, and Food.