On June 30 the CMS posted the first full year of disclosures under the Physician Payment Sunshine Act provision of the Affordable Care Act. According to the data posted to the CMS' Open Payments website, drug and medical-device companies paid teaching hospitals $543 million in general payments, which include speaking and consulting fees, gifts, travel and royalties for drugs based on research conducted by the providers. That latter category accounts for the vast majority of payments to City of Hope, which received far more than any of its peers. City of Hope received nearly $250 million in royalties from Genentech for its work on the science underlying the cancer drugs Avastin, Rituxan and Herceptin.
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