Open Payments System is Available—Register and Submit Your Data

The Open Payments system is now open for Program Year 2018 data submission. Applicable manufacturers and group purchasing organizations (GPOs) can:

Register
Recertify their registration from the previous year
Submit Program Year 2018 data (covering payments and other transfers of value made between January 1 and December 31, 2018)
Submit new or corrected data from previous program years

Note: All applicable manufacturers and GPOs with reportable payments, other transfers of value, or ownership or investment interests must register or recertify within the Open Payments application.

The data submission period begins today, February 1, 2019 and continues through March 31, 2019. The review and dispute period is targeted to start in April 2019.

Resources are available at: https://cms.gov/OpenPayments/About/Resources.html

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Updated Validated Physician List Available

CMS encourages applicable manufacturers and GPOs to utilize the provided physician list to validate profile information. The VPL is designed to minimize matching errors during data submissions and eliminate any inconsistencies in the reported data. The VPL may be used for pre-validation of physician identifying information. The list contains physicians who have previously been reported in the Open Payments system and whom CMS was able to verify using its data sources.

There are two versions of the VPL, one containing physicians who have a National Provider Identifier (NPI) and one containing physicians who do not have an NPI.

The VPL containing physicians with NPIs includes:

Variations of physician first/ last name
National Provider Identifiers (NPIs)
State License Numbers

The VPL containing physicians without NPIs includes:

Variations or physician first/ last name
State License Numbers and associated primary types

CMS encourages reporting entities who have implemented automated processing of the VPL to review the new layout for the VPL containing physicians without NPIs as soon as possible.

You must be registered in the Open Payments system and affiliated with a reporting entity in order to access and download the VPL and the accompanying instructions document.

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Questions—Contact Live Help Desk

For more information about Open Payments, please visit the Open Payments website. If you have any questions, you can send an email to the Help Desk at openpayments@cms.hhs.gov.

Extended Help Desk Hours: Live Help Desk support is available by calling 1-855-326-8366 (TTY Line: 1-844-649-2766). Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. (ET), excluding Federal holidays.

The Help Desk refers media inquiries to CMS’ Press Office for response.