1. Financial Ties Between Emergency Physicians and Industry: Insights From Open Payments Data 
William Fleischman, MD, Joseph S. Ross, MD, MHS, Edward R. Melnick, MD, MHS, David H. Newman, MD, Arjun K. Venkatesh, MD, MBA 
Annals of Emergency Medicine 
Volume 68, Issue 2, Pages e4 (August 2016)
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2. Figure 1
Tornado diagram of the percentage of active physicians who received a payment and the total pay per physician in 2014, by specialty. The box-and-whisker plot is in logarithmic scale (transparent line represents median, box represents interquartile range, and whiskers represent the most extreme values within 1.5 times the interquartile range of the nearer quartile).
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3. Figure 2
Characteristics of payments to emergency physicians. The box-and-whisker plot is in logarithmic scale (line represents median, box represents interquartile range, and whiskers represent the most extreme values within 1.5 times the interquartile range of the nearer quartile). ∗The original Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) data contain 16 categories for the “nature of payment”; we have condensed these for clarity. The definitions of the categories as defined by CMS are available in Table E1 (available online at †Royalty and licensing fee payments were not included in the primary analysis and results, but are included here so as to characterize all payments to emergency physicians.
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4. Figure E1
Characteristics of payments to physician by select specialties. The box-and-whisker plots are in logarithmic scale (line represents median, box represents interquartile range, and whiskers represent the most extreme values within 1.5 times the interquartile range of the nearer quartile).
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5. Figure E2
Histograms of distribution of pay per physician by specialty. Red lines denote medians, and specialties are presented in order of increasing medians.
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