Respironics Settlement and Corporate Integrity Agreement
One more False Claims Act case has been settled; this time Respironics, Inc., who allegedly violated the False Claims…
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House Oversight Committee: America’s Heroin and Opioid Abuse Epidemic
On the same day that the FDA issued black box warning to all immediate release opioids, the House Committee on Oversight…
Novartis Settles China Foreign Corrupt Practices Complaint
Novartis AG has settled civil charges against the company, for $25 million to the United States Securities and Exchange…
Senate HELP Committee Continues Work on 21st Century Cures Corollary
Earlier this week, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a hearing on a package of…
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…
CDC Releases Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids
The dramatic increase in overdose deaths due to opioids has been a major focus of political and medical leaders over the…
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…
New Canadian CME Standards for Commercial Support
Canada has created new standards for industry involvement with accredited CME programs. Three professional…
Senate Introduces Bill Eliminating the Tax Deduction for DTC Advertising
Four Democrats have introduced a Senate companion bill to the House bill to ban nearly all direct-to-consumer (DTC)…
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology…
The United States Department of Health and Human Services released a proposed rule last week that would permit the…