Drug Shortages Remain in 2013
While Congress and federal health agencies have been constantly busy enacting new healthcare and drug legislation and implementing…
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June 2013
AMA House of Delegates Calls for Limits to Maintenance of Certification…
MedPage Today reported that the AMA "made its disapproval of board and licensure recertification programs heard loud and clear…
Physician Payment Sunshine: Minnesota Officially Scales Back Physician…
Back in January of this year, the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy, through its Executive Director Cody Wiberg, announced that it would…
Physician Payment Sunshine Act: AMA House of Delegates Voice Concern over…
Last week, we reported that the American Medical Association (AMA) would be discussing at its annual meeting in Chicago a number…
CMS Proposes Increased Incentives for Information on Misuse
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that would increase incentives for people to report…
HHS OIG Reports Small Percentage of Prescribers May be Overutilizing Part D…
Recently we reported that ProPublica had launched a new effort known as "Prescriber Checkup", which allows anyone with internet…
FDA Expanded Access to Investigational Drugs for Treatment Use: Draft…
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released a Draft Guidance for Industry, in the form of Question and Answer (Qs…
HHS OIG Proposes Safe Harbor for Electronic Health Records
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a proposed rule to create…
HHS OIG Issues Exclusion Advisory
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently issued an Updated…
EFPIA Transparency Guidelines: Reporting Payments in Europe
In a recent update from the international law firm Fulbright & Jaworski, through its soon-to-be new firm Norton Fulbright (now…