Continuing
our series on the CMS Open Payments database, I offering this nautical chart prepared past times Walid Gellad, too posted on Twitter at @walidgellad, summarizing the payments made from Intuitive Surgical to doctors too hospitals for 5 months inwards 2103. Gellad describes himself equally "Primary assist physician. Health services research. Co-direct
Pitt Center for Pharmaceutical Policy & Prescribing. Opinions my own." Here's
his bio.
Striking to me, equally I noted
below, is the set out of payments too amount (over $2 million) made for "education," i.e., paying doctors to attend grooming sessions on the role of the daVinci robotic surgical operation equipment.
