Published October 19, 2010

Drug companies have long kept the names of their speakers — and how much they pay them — secret. But last year, seven companies began posting doctors’ names and compensation on their websites, some as the result of legal settlements with the federal government.

ProPublica took these disclosures, totaling $257.8 million to about 17,700 providers, and assembled them into a single, comprehensive database that allows patients to search for their physician.

You can read or listen to the findings of the NPR-ProPublica investigation and use the widget below to see if your doctor takes money from insurance companies.

http://cdn.wbur.org/media/special/2010/hubbub_1019_dollars-for-docs