BioSimilar January MedPAC Recommendations: Rebates & Biosimilars Thomas Sullivan Mar 6, 2019 0 The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), responsible for advising Congress on Medicare issues, held its January 2019…
Medical Legal Insys: Incompetence and Complete Disregard for Patients on Trial Thomas Sullivan Mar 5, 2019 0 The racketeering trial of five former Insys Therapeutics executives accused of bribing doctors across the country to increase…
CMS Hospital-Acquired Conditions on the Decline Thomas Sullivan Mar 4, 2019 0 The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released…
HHS The Current State of Health IT and EHR in America Thomas Sullivan Mar 1, 2019 0 Recently, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released the 2018 Annual Update on the…
Congress Industry CEOs Testify at Senate Finance Hearing Thomas Sullivan Feb 28, 2019 0 On Tuesday, February 26, 2019, the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on drug costs and potential policy solutions to bring…
Drug Prices Industry Offering Larger Prescription Discounts Thomas Sullivan Feb 27, 2019 0 While the headlines of the year tend to focus on the fact that some pharmaceutical companies are raising their list prices,…
CMS PhRMA Submits Comments on CMS Proposed Rule Regarding Modernizing Part D… Thomas Sullivan Feb 26, 2019 0 In November 2018, the United States Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule with the intent to…
CME Canada Bars Physicians from Claiming Fancy Dinners as Education Thomas Sullivan Feb 25, 2019 0 A new report released by the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) outlined new efforts by the group to protect the…
ACCME ACCME and CMS Teaming Up for Webinar: CME that Counts for MIPS Thomas Sullivan Feb 25, 2019 0 On Wednesday, March 6, 2019, the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and Centers for Medicare &…
Corporate Integrity Agreements Walgreens to Pay $269.2 To Settle Civil Fraud Lawsuits Thomas Sullivan Feb 22, 2019 0 The Walgreens Boots Alliance has agreed to pay $269.2 million to settle two separate whistleblower lawsuits accusing it of civil…