University of Toronto Reports Findings in Managed Care (Industry-Sponsored Research Funding to Urologists in the United States Between 2014 and 2022): Managed Care

2024 NOV 20 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- New research on Managed Care is the subject of a report. According to news reporting out of Toronto, Canada, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Urologists face challenges in obtaining public research funding, leading to increasing reliance on the industry for research support. This study aimed to examine the extent and trends in industry-sponsored research payments to urologists from 2014 to 2022 in the United States.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Toronto, “We identified all US urologists using the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services National Plan and Provider Enumeration System database and extracted their industry-sponsored research payments data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Open Payments Database. We performed descriptive analyses of the payments data. Among 13,902 US urologists, 1330 (9.6%) received at least one industry-sponsored research payment. Urologists received $605.1 million between 2014 and 2022. Of all research payments, 98.7% ($597.4 million) were associated research payments for research where urologists served as principal investigators. The top 10% of urologists in research payments received 79.3% ($480.0 million) of total research payments. Only 0.4% ($2.3 million) of research payments were for preclinical research, whereas registered clinical trials totaled $159.0 million (26.3% of all research payments). The annual value of research payments increased from $35.2 million in 2014 to $101.7 million in 2022. The average percentage change in total payments showed a significant annual increase of 13.9% (95% CI, 11.6%-16.3%; < .001) in value. There was no significant trend in the number of urologists receiving research payments.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Industry-sponsored research payments to urologists are substantial and have increased in both payment amount and number over time.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Industry-Sponsored Research Funding to Urologists in the United States Between 2014 and 2022. Urology Practice, 2024.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting David-Dan Nguyen, Division of Urology, Dept. of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Additional authors for this research include Anju Murayama, Anna-Lisa V. Nguyen, Liam Murad, Alan Cheng, Dean S. Elterman, Girish S. Kulkarni, Naeem Bhojani, Raj Satkunasivam, Quoc-Dien Trinh, Deborah C. Marshall and Christopher J. D. Wallis.

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