Effectiveness of Commitment To Change CME
The concept of commitment to change (CTC) is based on the principles of encouraging and enabling participant reflection on…
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October 2011
Physician Payment Sunshine Act: Key Opinion Leader Paradigm Shift
Historically, biological, pharmaceutical and medical device firms (“firms”) marketed products to healthcare providers (“provider”)…
Physician Payment Sunshine: Physicians Fail to See the Changes Ahead
The Physician Payment Sunshine Act, contained in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), requires pharmaceutical companies and other…
The Office of Government Ethics Proposed Ethics Rules
The Office of Government Ethics (OGE) is proposing amendments to the ethics rules for government employees. OGE was directed by…
CME and the Health Care Economy Hospitals and Universities Cutting Back
According to a recent article from Medical Marketing & Media, “state-accredited continuing medical education (CME) providers…
CMS to Release Final Rule on Hospital Readmissions
A recent article from Kaiser Health News noted that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will soon release a final…
Physician Payment Sunshine Act: CMS Misses Deadline – Creating…
As we have noted many times on this website, the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (Sunshine Act), which was included in the Patient…
Transparency as a Powerful Tool illustrating Collaboration and Empowering…
Continuing their “Campaign of Shame,” the so-called “investigative journalist” shop ProPublica has been running a series of…