Collaborations FDA to Consider Expanding Scientific Exchange Thomas Sullivan May 28, 2014 0 At the 2014 FDLI Annual Conference, senior officials at FDA noted that the agency is not taking lightly industry's concerns…
FDA FDA Relaxing Controls on Imported Products for 13 Pharmaceutical Companies Thomas Sullivan May 28, 2014 0 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is loosening the regulatory controls for 13 pharmaceutical companies that will…
HHS-OIG HHS-OIG Releases Updated Advisory on Independent Charity Patient Assistance… Thomas Sullivan May 27, 2014 0 Back in 2005, OIG concluded that pharmaceutical manufacturer patient assistance programs (PAPs) that subsidize Part D…
International Pakistan Looks to Increase Transparency between Healthcare Providers and… Thomas Sullivan May 27, 2014 0 Pakistan may be the latest country onsidering increasing transparency in interactions between healthcare providers and industry.…
Open Payments Physician Payments Sunshine Act: Phase 2 Data Submission and Attestation… Thomas Sullivan May 23, 2014 0 On June 1, applicable manufacturers and applicable group purchasing organizations (GPOs) will start Phase 2 of Open…
Physician Payment Disclosure DC Transparency Law: Companies Won’t Have to Report Payments Made to DC… Thomas Sullivan May 23, 2014 0 The District of Columbia's AccessRX Act of 2004 has required pharmaceutical companies to report their marketing…
HHS-OIG Supreme Court Declines to Review Important False Claims Act Issue Thomas Sullivan May 22, 2014 0 In our February article, Will Sunshine Data Help Qui Tam Whistleblowers and Their Attorneys?, we mentioned that while…
FDA FDA Seeks Comment on New Draft Guidance for Biosimilars: “Clinical… Thomas Sullivan May 21, 2014 0 The Affordable Care Act amended the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) to include an abbreviated approval pathway for biological…
Open Payments Physician Payments Sunshine Act: No Word Yet From CMS on Phase 2, Which… Thomas Sullivan May 21, 2014 0 As we've written numerous times now, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) split company submissions of…
CME Maintenance of Certification: Petition to Recall ABIM’s MOC Requirements… Thomas Sullivan May 20, 2014 1 The rally against Maintenance of Certification (MOC) continues as more and more doctors have signed a petition to recall…