For patients in our home territory of the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, here are some quick links to look up your doctor’s payments last year from manufacturers of drugs and medical devices.
This comes from the ProPublica database, which has obtained the numbers from the federal government in a newly implemented aspect of the Affordable Care Act.
The big players tend to be doctors who use a lot of medical devices like hip implants. For example, Randall Lewis, a Chevy Chase, Maryland orthopedist, and Charles Engh, a Virginia orthopedist, each received seven-figure payments from device makers last year.