PlainPharmaWatch publisher profile
Every figure on PlainPharmaWatch traces back to a named public source and documented pipeline. This profile explains the publisher responsible for the data framing, methodology, and corrections process.
This publisher profile identifies the organization behind the processed CMS Open Payments release. See the methodology for source vintage, scope, and how each figure is derived.
Every figure published on PlainPharmaWatch is traced back to its official public source and computed by deterministic pipelines, not hand-entered. The methodology sets out how each dataset is sourced, computed, and refreshed, and the about page explains the corrections process. The published organization below is accountable for that data framing and methodology; no individual or team review is implied.
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Public-data publisher
PlainPharmaWatch is a public-data reference that analyzes pharmaceutical payment disclosures from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Its published figures are compiled through documented data pipelines from the underlying government records.
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PlainPharmaWatch is a data-journalism publisher: we compile public datasets, verify them against their official sources, and present them in plain language. Editorial standards, sourcing, and how we handle corrections are described on our about and methodology pages.
Download the CMS Open Payments company summary extract cited on this page: plainpharmawatch-companies.csv (CC0).