Get better with data @ InsightNovember 2015

Descriptive AnalysisTeam 6

Overview● We looked at CMS Open Payment dataset. ● Which physician specialties received the most payments across the

country? ● What is the nature of payments to these top 4 specialties?● Which sectors do these top specialties mostly invest in?● From which parts of the country do these specialties have reported the

most?● How to interpret our data!● This data is self reported!

Top four specialties received the most payments

Payment to top 4 specialties

Payment per Specialty

Payments by State

Invested amount of money for top 4 specialities

Top companies by investments

● ICU Medical Inc. (168 mil$) - 61%● Avinger Inc. (32 mil$) - 12%● OrthoPediatrics Corp. (9 mil$) - 3.2%● Paradigm Spine, LLC (5.6 mil$) - 2%● ORTHOSENSOR INC. (5.2 mil$) - 1.91%● SynCardia Systems, Inc (5 mil$) - 1.83%

The Team

Solmaz Shariat Torbaghan

Nidhin Pattaniyil Anna Coenen Antonija Burcul