FDA Public Citizen Urges FDA To Penalize Drug Makers Over Diabetes Ads,… Thomas Sullivan Apr 3, 2015 0 Consumer advocacy group Public Citizen is calling on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to “stop the apparently violative…
HHS-OIG Laboratory Referral Arrangements Under the Gun Thomas Sullivan Apr 2, 2015 0 Referral arrangements between laboratories and physicians have received a lot of scrutiny lately. Last week, it was…
Events CBI’s Sixth Annual Transparency Reporting West, April 21-22 in San… Thomas Sullivan Apr 1, 2015 0 Learn new strategies to streamline Open Payments reporting and leverage data analytics to improve risk management and…
Medical Legal Judge Dismisses Off-Label and Kickback Allegations Against Bristol-Myers… Thomas Sullivan Apr 1, 2015 0 District Court Judge William Bertelsman recently dismissed False Claims Act (FCA) allegations against Bristol-Myers…
Open Payments CMS: Open Payments Data Submission and Attestation Period Open until… Thomas Sullivan Mar 31, 2015 0 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has just announced that the Open Payments data submission period will…
CMS Open Payments Submissions Due Today, March 31; Vermont Reports Due… Thomas Sullivan Mar 31, 2015 0 Manufacturers must submit their Open Payments reports to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) today, March 31.…
International New Zealand Transparency Advocates Call For Sunshine Act Thomas Sullivan Mar 30, 2015 0 A group of transparency advocates in New Zealand has been writing various articles on the value of “more Sunshine” for a…
Medical Legal BioChemics, Inc. Pays the SEC $17.9 Million For Allegedly Misrepresenting… Thomas Sullivan Mar 27, 2015 0 BioChemics, Inc., a Massachusetts-based biopharmaceutical company was ordered Wednesday to pay a total of almost $18…
Open Payments West Virginia Prescription Drug Advertising Expense Reporting Rule REPEALED Thomas Sullivan Mar 26, 2015 0 On March 24th, West Virginia’s Governor, Earl Ray Tomblin, approved SB 267, which repeals the state’s Prescription Drug…
SGR SGR Repeal: Bipartisan Leaders Announce Repeal To Be Considered Before… Thomas Sullivan Mar 25, 2015 0 This time last year, we analyzed 2014’s sustainable growth rate (SGR) fix. Although a bipartisan group of lawmakers announced they…