FDA FDA Draft Guidance on Expedited Programs for Serious Conditions – Drugs and… Thomas Sullivan Jul 24, 2013 0 Recently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a Guidance for Industry, entitled "Expedited Programs for Serious…
CMS CMS Proposed Rule: Physician Fee Schedules Thomas Sullivan Jul 23, 2013 0 On July 8, 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that would update payment policies…
Open Payments Physician Payment Sunshine Act: CMS Requests Comments on Open Payments… Thomas Sullivan Jul 22, 2013 1 Today in the Federal Register was posted a notice for interested parties to submit comments on the Open Payments System (Physician…
HHS-OIG Summary of Recent Settlements Novartis, Amgen and Boehringer Ingelheim Thomas Sullivan Jul 19, 2013 1 The healthcare fraud settlements just keep rolling in. Recently, federal healthcare enforcement authorities settled several cases…
AMA AMA’s National Health Insurer Report Card – $12 Billion Could be Saved… Thomas Sullivan Jul 18, 2013 1 Patients are responsible for nearly one-quarter of the medical bill, according to the findings released today from American…
Clinical Research JAMA Drops Requirement for Independent Statistical Analysis for Industry… Thomas Sullivan Jul 17, 2013 0 The Journal of American Medical Association dropped its requirement for independent statistical analyses of industry-funded…
Electronic Health Records HHS OIG: Hospital Compliance Programs Thomas Sullivan Jul 17, 2013 0 The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human services (HHS) recently did a podcast on…
Open Payments Physician Payment Sunshine Act: Open Payment – Questions and Answers… Thomas Sullivan Jul 17, 2013 0 Updated: October 30th, 2013: As we have reported numerous times, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services issued answers to…
Physician Payment Sunshine Act: Final Rule Physician Payment Sunshine Act: CMS Launches Open Payment Apps for… Thomas Sullivan Jul 16, 2013 0 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released their Open Payments Apps for Physicians and Manufacturers/GPO's to…
FDA FDA REMS: FDA Hosting a Two Day Meeting on Issues and Challenges with REMS… Thomas Sullivan Jul 16, 2013 0 Over the past year, we have written several times about the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) goals to standardize Risk…