Maintenance of Certification Interstate Medical Licensure Compact – Expands to 17 States Thomas Sullivan Jun 24, 2016 0 Seventeen states have enacted legislation in an attempt to expand access to health care through expedited medical licensure. The…
FDA FDA Holds Public Meeting on Monograph Fees Thomas Sullivan Jun 23, 2016 1 The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that it will start to gather information on creating…
DOJ Is the Carrot Bigger Than the Stick? – The DOJ’s FCPA “Pilot… Thomas Sullivan Jun 23, 2016 0 Kurt Stitcher, Senior Compliance Consultant The U.S. Department of Justice's FCPA Pilot Program is nominally designed to…
Medical Journals JAMA Internal Medicine Bias – Now You See Me Thomas Sullivan Jun 22, 2016 2 Merlin the Magician would be proud of a recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine attempting to prove that…
CMS CMS: Hospital and Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Changes to Promote… Thomas Sullivan Jun 21, 2016 0 CMS recently released a proposed rule updating the Conditions of Participation (CoP) for 6,228 hospitals and critical access…
FDA How the FDA Is Doing with Medical Devices and the Medical Device Industry Thomas Sullivan Jun 21, 2016 0 The FDA and the GAO both released data on the FDA's performance in medical device regulation over the last several years. This…
Anti Kickback Carl Reichel Warner Chilcott Executive Acquittal Deals Blow to Yates Memo Thomas Sullivan Jun 20, 2016 0 In a blow to the Department of Justice and the Yates Memo, a Massachusetts jury acquitted Warner Chilcott executive Carl Reichel.…
GAO GAO Report Harshly Critical of Medicare Advantage Plans Thomas Sullivan Jun 20, 2016 0 A May 2016 report from the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) is harshly critical of Private Medicare Advantage…
Clinical Research PhRMA Members Invested $58.8 Billion in R&D in 2015 Thomas Sullivan Jun 17, 2016 0 In 2015, PhRMA member companies invested $58.8 billion in research and development, up 10.3% from 2014. The new R&D data is…
DOJ Sun Pharma Receives Grand Jury Summons Thomas Sullivan Jun 16, 2016 0 Sun Pharmaceuticals, India's largest drug maker, recently disclosed that the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has…