Open Payments is a national transparency program that collects and publishes information about financial relationships between drug and medical device companies and certain health care providers. Open Payments, a database maintained by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), allows the public to search for covered recipients receiving payments, as well as reporting entities that have made payments. The purpose of the program is to provide the public with a more transparent health care system. All information available on the Open Payments database is open to personal interpretation and if there are questions about what the data means, patients and their advocates should speak directly to the health care provider for a better understanding. For informational purposes only, a link to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments web page is provided here. The federal Physician Payments Sunshine Act requires that detailed information about payment and other payments of value worth over ten dollars ($10) from manufacturers of drugs, medical devices, and biologics to physicians and teaching hospitals be made available to the public.”