Physician Financial Relationships with Industry 2011

<p>This dataset contains the industry payments and financial relationships with U.S. physicians from 432 for-profit companies that publically reported data. These data were derived from Kyruus, is a software-based solutions company that uses big data to optimize patient access and provider network operations for large health systems across the country. These data contain individual-level information on physicians’ financial relationships with industry in 2011, including companies from whom they received money, the monetary value of these interactions, and the reason for the financial tie (consulting, research funding, meals and travel, etc.). Additionally, these data include demographic information such as age, gender, medical specialty and primary location. We merged these individual-level data with institution-level data from the American Hospitals Association (AHA) 2011 Annual Survey (which has to be obtained independently due to liscense restrictions) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) 2011 publically searchable database. Kyruus provided permission for data sharing.