Open Payments Physician Payment Sunshine Act: OMB and CMS Seek Comments For Dispute… Thomas Sullivan May 6, 2014 0 In the Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) posted a notice for interested parties to submit…
Electronic Health Records PCORI Looks to Link Millions of Electronic Medical Records by September… Thomas Sullivan May 5, 2014 0 The Affordable Care Act generated more than the health exchanges and our favorite Sunshine Act. The law also created the…
Open Payments Physician Payment Sunshine Act: Phase 1 Open Payments Survey Thomas Sullivan May 5, 2014 0 March 31st—the first deadline for reporting aggregate spend reports to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS)—has…
Open Payments Physician Payments Sunshine Act: Phase 2 of Open Payments Registration and… Thomas Sullivan May 2, 2014 0 CMS sent out yet another announcement that they expect to begin Phase 2 of Open Payments registration and data submission for…
Open Payments Physician Payments Sunshine Act: Physicians and Teaching Hospitals Can… Thomas Sullivan May 2, 2014 0 Physician and Teaching Hospital CMS Registration Begins June 1 We have speculated for a long time now about when physicians…
Affordable Care Act HHS Releases New ACA Figures: 8 Million Individuals Enrolled During the… Thomas Sullivan May 2, 2014 0 The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released updated Affordable Care Act (ACA) enrollment data which found that over…
ACCME ACCME Announces State Accredited Providers are ACCME Accredited, and a… Thomas Sullivan May 1, 2014 0 We recently posted about the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) decision to ban corporate logos on any…
Clinical Research World Congress Second Annual Medical Affairs Summit Thomas Sullivan May 1, 2014 0 Transparency requirements and other regulatory initiatives have affected all aspects of healthcare delivery. Medical Affairs and…
FDA FDA Proposes Expedited Approval Process for Medical Devices Thomas Sullivan Apr 30, 2014 0 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed a new program to expedite medical device approvals for patients whose serious…
CMS Qui Tam Lawyers Mining the Medicare Database for Potential Fraud Thomas Sullivan Apr 29, 2014 0 The press had a field day with the newly released Medicare payment data. We recently discussed the fact that many of these news…