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What’s happening with Open Payments?

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A new system related to health care is out from the federal government, and it’s getting poor reviews. It’s called Open Payments.

Ideally, people would be able to see how much money doctors and health systems get from pharmaceutical companies. But the data is incomplete, and the system is clunky to work with. We talk about it with Wall Street Journal reporter Ed Silverman and Tracy Koval with the Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians and Foundation.