Here are six key findings:
1. Forty-eight percent of physicians received industry payments in 2015.
2. In sum, these payments totaled $2.4 billion that year.
3. General payments constituted $1.8 billion of the overall payments and cumulative ownership interests totaled $544 million. Research payment reached $75 million in 2015.
4. Male physicians received 70.2 percent of the payments, compared to their female counterparts. The analysis found men were more likely than women to receive general payments in every specialty category.
5. Surgeons received 61 percent of overall payments, compared to 47.7 percent of primary care physicians.
6. For surgeons, the mean per-physician payment totaled $6,879. Primary care physicians had a $2,227 average payment value.
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