Proposition 61 in California: Should We Be Worried?
With all eyes focused on the impending presidential election, many may be overlooking a perhaps more important impending vote: the…
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ACCME Announces Inaugural “Expanded Educational” Meeting
ACCME has announced its inaugural expanded educational event, which will take place April 24 through 27, 2017, at the Loews…
Open Payments Having an Adverse Effect on Physician-Rep Relationships
Open Payments, a program created by the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (part of the Affordable Care Act) has started to come…
CMS Posts Revised FAQ, Clarifying that Support for Independent CME is Not…
On September 22, 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) posted a revised FAQ on its Open Payments website…
Helping the Patient – Co-Pay Reimbursement Can Be Okay in Certain…
The OIG’s recent Advisory Opinion suggest that under certain circumstances patient co-pay reimbursement programs are allowable.…
California to Allow Experimental Drug Treatments for Terminally Ill…
California Governor Jerry Brown recently signed legislation allowing terminally ill patients in his state to have access to…
The Blue Ribbon Panel Raises the Bar on Ethics & Compliance
According to the Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI), ethics and compliance programs should not be “check the box programs”…
Representative Lieu Laser-Focused on Device Act, Olympus
Olympus Corp. has had its fair share of legal troubles, some of which culminated in a settlement of $646 million in early 2016.…
Like Taxes and Inflation – HHS Revises Civil Monetary Penalties…
The Department of Health and Human Services has issued an Interim Final Rule, adjusting for inflation the maximum civil monetary…
CMS Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Evaluation Released
The first year of CMS' voluntary Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative has yielded a mixed bag of results, according to…