Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, USA.
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Clin Imaging. 2024 Oct;114:110237. doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2024.110237. Epub 2024 Jul 20.
Industry payments to physicians are common, but it is unknown how the payments in different categories to radiologists compare to other specialties.
The aim of this study is to assess the proportion of industry payments to physicians in radiology in certain categories relative to other specialties.
The Open Payments Database was analyzed from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2021 for industry payments to all allopathic & osteopathic physicians, and classified into distinct clinical specialties. Payments to physicians in three categories were calculated in relation to total payments in each specialty during the study period: consulting fees, research, and royalties/ownership (royalty, license, or current or prospective ownership or investment).
The total value of industry payments to physicians across all specialties was just under $13 billion over the six-year period from 2017 to 2022. During this period, 51.4 million total payments were made to 791,746 physicians. US physicians in radiology received 452,027 payments for a total value of $357 million (2.8 % of total value). For radiologists, 32.8 % of industry payment value was attributed to royalties/ownership and 9.9 % to research, collectively adding up to 42.7 % of all industry payment. The only specialties with higher payments in these two categories considered reflective of innovation payments were the surgical specialties with higher royalty payments.
The proportion of industry payments in radiology in categories reflecting innovation (royalty/ownership and research fees) is high and second only to surgical specialties.
向医生支付行业报酬很常见，但尚不清楚不同类别向放射科医生支付的报酬与其他专业相比如何。
本研究旨在评估放射科医生在某些类别中的行业报酬占比相对于其他专业的比例。
从 2017 年 1 月 1 日至 2021 年 12 月 31 日，分析了开放支付数据库中所有全科学和骨科医生的行业支付情况，并将其分为不同的临床专业。在研究期间，根据每个专业的总支付额，计算了三类医生的支付额，包括咨询费、研究和特许权使用费/所有权（特许权、许可证或当前或预期的所有权或投资）。
在 2017 年至 2022 年的六年期间，所有专业的行业支付总额略低于 130 亿美元。在此期间，共向 791746 名医生支付了 5140 万笔总支付。美国放射科医生收到了 35700 万美元的 452027 笔支付（占总价值的 2.8%）。对于放射科医生来说，行业支付价值的 32.8%归因于特许权使用费/所有权，9.9%归因于研究，合计占所有行业支付的 42.7%。仅在这两个类别中支付更高的专业是反映创新支付的外科专业。
反映创新（特许权使用费/所有权和研究费用）的放射科行业支付比例很高，仅次于外科专业。
