ACCME ACCME Updates : CME Providers Submit Year End Reporting By March 29, 2013 Thomas Sullivan Mar 19, 2013 0 The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) continued along with a number of important activities,…
Healthcare Reform Understanding the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) A.K.A the Doc Fix Thomas Sullivan Mar 18, 2013 0 Despite the monumental healthcare reforms enacted in the Affordable Care Act of 2010, there still remains one legislative fix that…
Electronic Health Records Overview of Electronic Health Records Thomas Sullivan Mar 15, 2013 0 We have written about health information technology (HIT) and electronic health records (EHRs) over the past few years given their…
Academic Organizations 2012 AAMC/SACME Harrison Survey of Academic Medical Centers Links CME to… Thomas Sullivan Mar 14, 2013 0 Since 1981, the Society for Academic CME (SACME) Research Committee has surveyed continuing medical education (CME) units at…
Collaborations Consensus Principles on Physician-Industry Collaboration Thomas Sullivan Mar 13, 2013 0 As our readers know, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the long awaited finalized regulations…
Conflict of Interest Physician Payment Sunshine: ProPublica Updates Dollars for Doctors Database… Thomas Sullivan Mar 12, 2013 0 Back in October 2010, an investigative journalist shop with the help of funding from the Pew Charitable Trust known as ProPublica…
Uncategorized HHS OIG: Recent FCPA, False Claims and Anti Kickback Settlements Thomas Sullivan Mar 12, 2013 1 In addition to the recent Amgen Settlement, the federal government announced several other settlements with pharmaceutical…
Uncategorized Preserve Access to Affordable Generics Act: Congress Proposes End to Pay… Thomas Sullivan Mar 11, 2013 0 As we noted earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case to decide whether agreements between brand-name…
CMS Medicare Proposes to Cut Regulations on Critical Access Hospitals Thomas Sullivan Mar 8, 2013 0 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released a 114-page proposed rule that would loosen certain…
Events Healthcare Innovation and Progress in a Sunshine Era: Establishing… Thomas Sullivan Mar 7, 2013 0 The Healthcare Leadership Council a coalition of chief executives from all disciplines within American healthcare, is hosting a…