Medical Legal States Hiring Private Law Firms on Contingent Basis for Civil Actions Can… Thomas Sullivan Oct 31, 2013 0 Earlier this year we reported that in addition to the federal government's aggressive enforcement and oversight of…
Open Payments Q&A CMS Questions by Category Thomas Sullivan Oct 30, 2013 0 Updated: October 30th, 2013: As we have reported numerous times, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) issued…
Open Payments Q&A Physician Payment Sunshine Act: CMS Open Payments – Posts Round 6 of… Thomas Sullivan Oct 30, 2013 0 Now that the government is back at work, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated it's frequently asked…
HHS-OIG Physician-Owned Distributors: Reliance Medical Systems Files Suite… Thomas Sullivan Oct 30, 2013 0 In April of this year, we reported on a new Special Fraud Alert regarding physician-owned distributorships (PODs) issued by the…
Physician Payment Sunshine Act: Final Rule Physician Payment Sunshine Act: 74 Physician Organizations Request HHS to… Thomas Sullivan Oct 30, 2013 0 33 physician organizations and 41 state medical societies sent a joint letter on October 28th to Department of Health…
Pharmaceutical and Device Impacts of Pharmaceutical Marketing and Healthcare Services in the District… Thomas Sullivan Oct 29, 2013 0 In April of last year, we wrote about Washington, DC's AccessRX Act, which requires pharmaceutical companies that market…
Physician Payment Sunshine Act: Final Rule Physician Payment Sunshine Act: Radiologists Concerned With Potential… Thomas Sullivan Oct 29, 2013 0 A recent article from DiagnosticImaging.com discussed what diagnostic radiologists "need to know" about the Physician…
Physician Payment Sunshine Act: Final Rule Physician Payment Sunshine Act: CMS Updates Teaching Hospital List for… Thomas Sullivan Oct 28, 2013 0 As required in the final rule for 2014 Open Payments data collection (from January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014), the 2014…
CME Bias in Non Commercially Supported CME Programs Still Small Thomas Sullivan Oct 28, 2013 0 Researchers in the Division of Postgraduate Medical Education at Massachusetts General Hospital published a study,…
CME CME Joint Sponsorship Requires Significant Cooperation Thomas Sullivan Oct 25, 2013 0 As continuing medical education (CME) stakeholders began addressing concerns from commercial supporters about reporting…