CMS Open Payments 2014 Data Highlights Thomas Sullivan Jul 14, 2015 0 The 2014 Open Payments database covers 11.41 million transactions between manufacturers and covered recipients (physicians and…
Uncategorized Novartis in the News: Blockbuster Heart Failure Drug Entresto Approved,… Thomas Sullivan Jul 13, 2015 0 Novartis has been in the news a fair amount recently—both for good and bad reasons. Starting with the good, the company’s heart…
Congress House of Representatives Approves 21st Century Cures Act 344-77 Thomas Sullivan Jul 10, 2015 0 The U.S. House of Representatives today approved H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act, by a vote of 344-77. The bill…
Open Payments Here We Go Again: Open Payments Round 2, and Planning For Disclosure, by… Thomas Sullivan Jul 10, 2015 0 Seth Whitelaw is President and CEO of Whitelaw Compliance Group, LLC. On the first of July, the Centers for Medicare and…
FDA PatientsLikeMe Teams With FDA To Explore Patient-Reported Adverse Events Thomas Sullivan Jul 9, 2015 0 During last month's DIA Annual meeting in Washington, D.C., online patient community PatientsLikeMe announced a research…
Uncategorized “Quality” Measures Update Thomas Sullivan Jul 9, 2015 0 According to CMS, more than 460,000 of the 1.25 million eligible Medicare providers did not meet deadlines to submit data for the…
DOJ AstraZeneca and Cephalon Agree to Pay $46.5 Million and $7.5 Million,… Thomas Sullivan Jul 8, 2015 0 The Department of Justice announced recently that AstraZeneca agreed to pay the United States and participating states a…
CME Hotel Worker Union Protests Industry-Funded CME Soon After Blacklisted… Thomas Sullivan Jul 8, 2015 1 Source: Unite Here! After calling for boycotts of multiple medical meetings in…
CMS What Are Reporters Writing About Open Payments 2014 Data? Thomas Sullivan Jul 7, 2015 0 Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the second year of Open Payments data, detailing the…
NIH NIH approves strategic vision to transform National Library of Medicine Thomas Sullivan Jul 6, 2015 1 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., recently approved a federal report that…