Corporate Integrity Agreements Endo Health Solutions Lidoderm Settlement and Corporate Integrity… Thomas Sullivan Mar 11, 2014 0 Endo Health Solutions, Inc. and its subsidiary Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Endo) have agreed to pay $171.9 million to resolve civil…
CMS CMS Ditches Proposed Changes to Medicare Part D Thomas Sullivan Mar 10, 2014 0 Last week we wrote about the unpopular proposed changes to Medicare Part D. Among the most problematic proposals was one to…
Physician Payment Disclosure Physician Payments Sunshine Act: ISMPP Revises Their Interpretation on… Thomas Sullivan Mar 10, 2014 0 The International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) established the Sunshine Task Force to provide information…
Media ProPublica to Sell Enhanced Data Received From FOIA Requests and Other… Thomas Sullivan Mar 10, 2014 0 ProPublica have announced their plan to sell information they receive from FOIA requests and other "datasets that reflect…
Physician Payment Disclosure Pharmaceutical Companies Drastically Cut Speaker Payments for Doctors Thomas Sullivan Mar 7, 2014 0 A number of large pharmaceutical companies have greatly reduced payments to healthcare professionals for promotional speeches.…
Physician Payment Sunshine Act: Final Rule Physician Payments Sunshine Act: Best Practices for Journal Reprint… Thomas Sullivan Mar 6, 2014 1 The CBI Compliance Congress shined a bright light on the Sunshine Act's complex reporting requirements. The presentation entitled…
CMS CMS: Uncommon Alliance of Stakeholders Push Back on Controversial Proposals… Thomas Sullivan Mar 5, 2014 0 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed rule, suggesting numerous technical and policy changes to key…
FDA FDA Draft Guidance: Distributing Scientific and Medical Publications on… Thomas Sullivan Mar 4, 2014 0 A new draft guidance document released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) aims to clarify the ways in which a…
Affordable Care Act SGR Fix The Final Deal? Thomas Sullivan Mar 3, 2014 0 On Thursday, February 6th, a bipartisan group of congressional lawmakers announced they had reached a deal on legislation to…