PlainPharmaWatch

Terms of Use

PlainPharmaWatch presents pharmaceutical payment data from the U.S. CMS Open Payments program for informational and educational use only. Nothing here is medical, legal, or financial advice, and a reported payment does not by itself imply wrongdoing by any physician, hospital, or manufacturer. These terms set out acceptable use, attribution, and the limits of our liability; the underlying figures and their caveats are documented in our methodology.

Acceptance

By using PlainPharmaWatch, you agree to these terms. If you disagree, please discontinue use.

Data Accuracy

PlainPharmaWatch reproduces payment records published through the CMS Open Payments program for Program Year 2024. Manufacturer reporting corrections, physician name changes, and CMS data refresh cycles may affect the figures shown. No warranty of completeness or precision is made.

Not Professional Advice

PlainPharmaWatch is not a government agency. Content does not constitute medical, financial, legal, or policy advice. Receiving payments from pharmaceutical companies is legal and does not imply wrongdoing.

The underlying data is public domain (U.S. government work). Our presentation, design, and analysis are copyrighted. You may not scrape, reproduce, or redistribute our pages without permission.

Downloadable data license

The CSV and JSON files expressly offered in our data catalog are dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0, to the extent of PlainPharmaWatch's rights. You may copy, modify, distribute, and use those named files, including commercially, without asking permission. Attribution is appreciated but is not a condition of that dedication. The dedication does not cover the site's design, editorial writing, trademarks, or any use that falsely implies PlainPharmaWatch's endorsement.

Contact

Questions? Contact legal@plainpharmawatch.com.

Data Accuracy and Verification

PlainPharmaWatch aggregates and reformats information that originates from public government agencies, regulatory filings, and other openly available sources. While we take reasonable steps to ingest, normalize, and refresh this data, upstream records may contain clerical errors, lag behind real-world changes, or omit relevant context. You are solely responsible for verifying any fact that influences a legal, medical, financial, educational, safety, or similarly consequential decision. Cross-reference the official source before acting on anything you read here.

Acceptable Use

You may browse, read, and share PlainPharmaWatch content for personal, journalistic, academic, and non-commercial research use. You may cite specific records with attribution and a link back to the page on plainpharmawatch.com. The CC0-licensed files in the data catalog are an express exception to the restrictions below. For the rest of this site, you may not (a) systematically scrape or crawl pages, or bulk-download material that is not an offered CC0 data file, without prior written permission; (b) reproduce or redistribute our copyrighted design, editorial writing, taxonomies, comparison tables, or curated rankings as a competing product; (c) use our pages to harass, defame, or misrepresent any individual or organization appearing in the data; (d) remove, obscure, or mislabel source attribution; or (e) attempt to bypass rate limits, security controls, or authentication mechanisms.

Plain-Language Editorial Role

PlainPharmaWatch combines public data with plain-language summaries, explainers, and comparisons. The published figures are derived through documented source-data pipelines; underlying records remain attributable to their issuing agencies. If you spot a summary that misreads the data, use the correction link on our contact page.

Intellectual Property

The underlying public records surfaced on PlainPharmaWatch are in the public domain or otherwise freely licensed by the issuing agency, you are free to use those raw facts. However, our site design, layout, navigation structure, original editorial copy, category taxonomies, comparison tables, and curated rankings are the copyrighted work of PlainPharmaWatch. These creative elements may not be reproduced in whole or substantial part without permission.

Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms of Use from time to time to reflect changes in our data sources, product features, legal environment, or advertising relationships. When we make material changes, we will update the "Last updated" date above and, when appropriate, surface a brief notice on the homepage. Continued use of the site after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised terms. We encourage you to revisit this page periodically.

Governing Law and Disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the United States and the jurisdiction in which PlainPharmaWatch is domiciled, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute arising from or relating to your use of PlainPharmaWatch will first be addressed through good-faith informal negotiation. If that fails, both parties agree to resolve the dispute in the courts with jurisdiction over PlainPharmaWatch's principal place of business. Nothing in these terms limits your statutory consumer-protection rights under applicable local law.

For formal legal notices, DMCA takedown requests, subpoenas, law-enforcement requests, or correspondence regarding these terms, email legal@plainpharmawatch.com. General questions, data corrections, and feedback should use the contact page.

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Who Publishes This

PlainPharmaWatch is operated by Kiznis Studio, an independent data-engineering studio (solo-operated). Questions, corrections, and accountability inquiries can be sent to hello@plainpharmawatch.com.