DOJ Insys $225 Million Settlement and Corporate Integrity Agreement Thomas Sullivan Jul 15, 2019 0 Last month, buried in all the other Insys news, was the news that Insys Therapeutics agreed to pay $225 million and plead guilty…
Sample Reporting Idaho Prescription Monitoring Program Monthly Manufacturer Reports for… Thomas Sullivan Jul 12, 2019 0 The State of Idaho recently sent out a letter to drug distributors, reminding companies of the law that went into effect on April…
Open Payments Update: Econometrica and Open Payments Oversight Thomas Sullivan Jul 12, 2019 0 You may recall back in October 2018 when we wrote a short article on the contract the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services…
Congress Senators Grassley and Wyden Expand Their Opioid Investigation to Tax-Exempt… Thomas Sullivan Jul 11, 2019 0 In 2012 Senators Grassley and Baucus sent letters to the American Pain Society and other pain-related organizations including the…
Drug Prices Study Shows that Patients’ Out-of-Pocket Costs for Neurology Drugs Have… Thomas Sullivan Jul 10, 2019 0 The journal Neurology recently published an article by lead author Brian Callaghan, MD at the University of Michigan, reporting…
DTC FDA Issues Advertising Warning Letter to Vivus Thomas Sullivan Jul 9, 2019 0 The FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) issued its second untitled letter of the year to California drugmaker Vivus…
Accountable Care Organizations HHS OIG Report: Using Health IT for Care Coordination Thomas Sullivan Jul 8, 2019 0 Recently, the Office of the Inspector General published a report, “Using Health IT for Care Coordination: Insights From Six…
Open Payments The Impact of Open Payments on Oncologists’ Relationships with Industry Thomas Sullivan Jul 5, 2019 0 A recent study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology researched the impact of the Open Payments program on how oncologists…
DTC FDA to Study Accelerated Approval Drug DTC Marketing Thomas Sullivan Jul 3, 2019 0 The US Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) recently published a notice in the Federal Register seeking to find out more about how…
CMS CMS Signals the Use of Mandatory Payment Models if Voluntary Models Don’t… Thomas Sullivan Jul 2, 2019 0 CMS recently said it will only use mandatory payment models when the agency feels it cannot get enough participation or have an…