Established by the Physician Payments Sunshine Act of 2010 and expanded by the SUPPORT Act of 2018, the Open Payments program creates public transparency around financial relationships between healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies. When faced with aging infrastructure and rising costs, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) needed to modernize the statutorily mandated Open Payments System (OPS) that has processed over 84 million records and $72 billion in reported payments from pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers and distributors to healthcare providers.
Index Analytics successfully modernized this decade-old legacy system by transitioning to Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) Cloud services, launching Open Payments 2.0 in summer 2024 with overwhelmingly positive user feedback. The transformation of Open Payments from an on-premises solution to a modern cloud-based application on AWS demonstrates how organizations can achieve…
