In 2014, doctors and research hospitals collected $6.5 billion from pharmaceutical and medical device companies, Reuters reports. The figures were revealed in a report from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that listed information on payments that 1,444 companies made to 607,000 physicians and more than 1,100 teaching hospitals.
Executive Editor
Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.