ICMEJ Proposes Data Socialism – Data Utopianism Has its Cracks –…
The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) recently put forth a proposed set of new requirements for sharing…
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Pacira Settlement and the Future
Pacira Pharmaceuticals announced a settlement with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in connection…
New Hampshire Legislation Targets Boards that Govern Opioid Prescribers
This year the presidential primaries in New Hampshire are bringing to national attention the crisis of Opioid addiction.…
Top Policy and Medicine Stories for 2015
At the end of each year, we attempt to give you an overview of what happened in previous year and give some spin on…
FDA DSCSA Implementation: Product Tracing Requirements for Dispensers –…
The Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) requires most of the entities along the drug supply chain--from manufacturers…
CMS and HHS-OIG Release Stark Law Practice Waivers for ACO’s
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of Inspector General (OIG) published a final rule…
Unintended Consequences of Transparency – Creating Confusion
A new study, published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, found that the recent transparency effort…
Medicare Releases Drug Data to the Public: Medicare Drug Spending Dashboard…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made drug cost data public for forty drugs administered by…
Sanofi Genzyme Merger Shows Future Value May Not Be All It’s Made out to Be
Merger and acquisition agreements are known to have many moving parts, and it is not uncommon for merger/acquisition…
CMS Annual Recovery Audit Report 2015
We have previously written about the Medicare Recovery Audit (RAC) program. In previous years, they reviewed million of…