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Open Payments 2015 Data Released
Background
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the 2015 Open Payments data, along with…
JAMA Internal Medicine Bias – Now You See Me
Merlin the Magician would be proud of a recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine attempting to prove that…
Ex-Pharma Sales Staff Arrested on Anti-Kickback Charges
It was recently announced that Jonathan Roper, a former District Manager at Insys Therapeutics, and Fernando Serrano, a…
Senate Finance Committee Majority Staff Releases Updated POD Report
The Senate Finance Committee Majority Staff recently issued a report entitled, “Physician Owned Distributorships: An Update on Key…
CMS Update Call on Open Payments
Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) held a National Provider Call on Open Payments: Program…
District of Columbia Makes Changes Transparency Law to Align with Open…
Late last week with only a photo attachment, the District of Columbia Department of Health announced to the…
ProPublica: Tying Open Payments Physician Data to Medicare Part D Data
ProPublica is once again trying to make a "correlation equals causation" argument between payments made to physicians…
Compliance Officers as Chief Data Analyst
With the US Sunshine reporting data fast approaching March 31, compliance teams are heads down in getting the spend records…
CMS Opens Physician and Teaching Hospital Registration for Open Payments…
CMS has announced that the Open Payments system is now open for physician and teaching hospital registration. While…
Open Payments 2016 Updates: Companies Should Report Retired and Deceased…
In politics it is sometimes noted that death does not necessarily prevent you from voting, in the case of Open Payments…