Physician ℞Plorer
Visualizing the relationship between pharmaceutical company payments and drug prescriptions
Visualizing the relationship between pharmaceutical company payments and drug prescriptions
What about Hippocrates?
Dr. Gavin Awerbuch, a Michigan neurologist who received $56,000 from Insys, was arrested this spring after federal prosecutors said he defrauded Medicare of $7 million and improperly prescribed Subsys to patients who did not need it. [New York Times Nov. 27,2014]
Open Payment Dataset
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Open Payment dataset recording all payments made by pharmaceutical companies to physicians. One could query information such as:
Prescription Dataset
The CMS released a second dataset that details information on the prescription drugs that physicians prescribed in 2013 under the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Program. The dataset describes the specific medications prescribed and statistics on their utilization and costs.
We merged the two datasets and build a tool to query relationships between physicians and pharmaceutical companies
Some technologies that we used:
Some limitations
Medicare Part D data will presumably primarily reflect 65+ population's prescription needs.
Join quality is very difficult to achieve; do not draw conclusions without corroboration!
