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Gender Gap In Industry Payments To Urologists, Matthew Davis, Mohit Butaney, Alexandra Rogers, Taylor J. Malchow, Samantha Wilder, Alex Stephens, Sohrab Arora, Akshay Sood, Alexander Cole, Quoc-Dien Trinh, Craig Rogers, Firas Abdollah Mar 2023

Gender Gap In Industry Payments To Urologists, Matthew Davis, Mohit Butaney, Alexandra Rogers, Taylor J. Malchow, Samantha Wilder, Alex Stephens, Sohrab Arora, Akshay Sood, Alexander Cole, Quoc-Dien Trinh, Craig Rogers, Firas Abdollah

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Background: The Open Payments Program (OPP) was established in 2013 under the Sunshine Act, which mandated that medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers submit public records of any financial incentive given to physicians. The study aim is to characterize the gap in general and research payments between male and female urologists over the past 7 years.

Methods: The study sample included all urologists in the US who received at least one general (GP) or research payment from 2015 to 2021. In order to identify urologists’ genders, the OPP was matched with the National Provider Index dataset. Payments to male …