CMS Lets Context On Doc Pay Reports Stand In Open Payments Database-thegraysheet: CMS has allowed industry “context” statements about individual payments they made to physicians and teaching hospitals to remain unaltered from how they were framed in company reports, in the Open Payments database released to the public by the agency Sept. 30. In addition, CMS is providing general contextual information on the Open Payments website, including descriptions of what the different “nature of payments categories, including consulting fees, research payments, and honorariums mean, with examples.
