Open Payments: Creating Public Transparency Into Industry-Provider Financial Relationships
September 29, 2022 2:00pm – 3:15pm (ET) Online
CE: 1.25 Contact Hour(s) of CE
Join the Open Payments team from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Program Integrity (CPI) for this overview of the Open Payments program and how it impacts nurse practitioners (NPs). This free webinar is available to all NPs! Access the recorded webinar in the AANP CE Center through June 30, 2023.
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Webinar Details
Open Payments: Creating Public Transparency Into Industry-Provider Financial Relationships
When: September 29, 2-3:15 p.m. ET (1-2:15 p.m. CT).
Where: Online via the AANP CE Center.
Cost: Free.
CE Credit: 1.25 CH of CE.About the Webinar
The Open Payments team from CPI will provide an overview of the Open Payments program, which promotes a more transparent and accountable health care system nationally. Open Payments houses a publicly accessible database of payments that reporting entities, including drug and medical device companies, make to covered recipients like physicians, NPs, PAs and other health care providers.
In this webinar, you will learn about the program and how it operates, see highlights of the data and become familiar with your role as a covered recipient. Following the presentation, the team will field questions from participants.
If you are not able to attend the webinar on September 29, a recorded version of this webinar will be available on-demand in the AANP CE Center until June 30, 2023.
Webinar Objectives
- Describe the Open Payments program and the cycle of each program year.
- State the steps for getting involved in Open Payments.
- Discuss the publicly accessible data in Open Payments and its impact on health care providers such as yourself.
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Speakers
- Amy Bedsaul serves as the communications lead for Open Payments in the Data Analytics and Systems Group (DASG) in CPI. She oversees the development of resources related to the program as well as stakeholder engagement. Through her role, the team has developed working relationships with various groups in the health care community and expanded outreach of the Open Payments program. In her free time, she enjoys hiking with her dog, kayaking and traveling with her husband.
- Veronika Peleshchuk-Fradlin has served the Open Payments program since the beginning of its implementation in 2013 as a functional subject matter expert and system technical lead. She currently is responsible for both technical and policy aspects of the program’s implementation as the director of the Division of Transparency Projects at CPI.
- Andrew Mack is the deputy director of the Division of Transparency Projects, in DASG. He has worked in a variety of leadership positions within CMS and in other federal departments and agencies.
- Kathleen Ott is the compliance team lead for the Open Payments program, Division of Transparency Projects, DASG, CPI. She has a Master’s in Business Administration degree from The Ohio State University and has worked with Open Payments since 2016.