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HHS Proposes New DTC Advertising Requirement
For our daily readers, you may have seen our post yesterday about the Pharmaceutical and Research Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)…
Physician in Ontario? Your Annual Income Could Be Public Information.
The Court of Appeal for Ontario recently ruled that the public has a general right know the names of top billing doctors within…
Downfall of Jose Baselga Respected Cancer Researcher Due to Careless…
Some of our readers may be familiar with Jose Baselga, MD, PhD, the former Physician-in-Chief at the Memorial Sloan Kettering…
Text Books from Pharma to Doctors – “Direct Patient Education”?
Transparency is always a hot topic, and a recent tweet by Allan Coukell brought the issue to the forefront once again.
The…
HHS OIG Performs Review of Open Payments Data – 99.9% of 2015 Data…
Recently, the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS OIG) completed a review of…
Are Doctors Really Influenced by the Pharmaceutical Industry?
Recently, Rafael Fonseca, MD and John A. Tucker, MBA, PhD, issued a critical analysis of a recent study that drew correlations…
Price Transparency: It’s Not Just Pharma…
Price transparency has been a “buzz phrase” for the pharmaceutical industry for the last several years. However, the state of New…
Is British Columbia Set to Follow Ontario in Canadian Pharmaceutical…
Recently, Canadian news outlet The Globe and Mail reported that British Columbia is planning to join Ontario in requiring…
Open Payments Data 2017: Significant Drop in Number of Payments
On Friday, June 29, 2018 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released the 2017 Open Payments Data, which…
Pharmacy Benefit Managers: States Put the Middlemen on the Run –…
As the federal government continues talking on ways it could address drug costs for tomorrow, state legislatures are acting to…