Congress EHR: Congress Moves to Delay and Modify Timeline for Meaningful Use Thomas Sullivan Aug 31, 2015 0 There is a growing movement in Congress to push the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to postpone Stage 3 of the…
BioSimilar Be Careful What You Wish For? FDA’s Biosimilars Naming Guidance Proposes… Thomas Sullivan Aug 28, 2015 0 Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released much anticipated guidance on how they plan to address nonproprietary…
FDA FTC Urges FDA To Reevaluate Current Approach To Regulating Homeopathic… Thomas Sullivan Aug 27, 2015 0 Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recommended that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) consider…
Medical Legal New Report Looks At Intersection of “Medical Lending” and… Thomas Sullivan Aug 26, 2015 2 A recent article in Reuters shed an interesting and potentially disturbing light on the “medical lending” industry,…
International UK Health Secretary Announces Mandatory “Sunshine Rule” After… Thomas Sullivan Aug 25, 2015 0 Yesterday, British Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced that all National Health Service hospitals and General…
Medical Legal Purdue Pharma Settles With New York AG Over Oxycontin Promotion; Agrees To… Thomas Sullivan Aug 24, 2015 0 New York’s Attorney General recently announced an agreement with Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin, that…
CMS CMS Proposed Fee Schedule for 2016 Overview Thomas Sullivan Aug 21, 2015 0 As we previously published, on July 15, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its proposed rule…
Medical Legal Amgen Pays $71 Million to States For Off-Label Allegations In Violation of… Thomas Sullivan Aug 20, 2015 0 Earlier this week, Amgen Inc. agreed to pay $71 million to 48 states to settle allegations that it violated state consumer…
CMS CMS Provides an “Update on Open Payments Reporting” at CBI… Thomas Sullivan Aug 19, 2015 0 Hundreds of people flocked to Washington, DC this week for a three-day conference on Open Payments reporting and…
Events Open Payments Data 2014 Suggest Downward Trend in Clinical Research… Thomas Sullivan Aug 18, 2015 1 Could the Sunshine Act be creating an unintentional downward trend in clinical research? An analysis of the U.S. government’s…