CMS Final Inpatient Rule
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued a final rule that updates fiscal year (FY) 2013 Medicare…
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FDA Goals for the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research CDER for FDASIA
One of the significant provisions in the recently enacted Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA) was the…
HIPAA Audits – Establishing Trends for Compliance and Future Actions
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently posted its long-awaited HIPAA audit…
NIH Pain Consortium Centers of Excellence
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pain Consortium recently selected 11 health professional schools as designated Centers of…
Six Things to Know About Drug Shortages
A recent article from Becker’s Hospital Review addressed some questions raised by the FDASIA drug shortage provisions. The…
Physician Payment Sunshine Act: Senate Aging Committee Roundtable September…
There has not been much public activity regarding the Physician Payment Sunshine Act (“Sunshine Act”)—Section 6002 of the…
Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee (IPRCC) Inaugural Meeting
The interagency pain research coordinating committee (IPRCC) recently held its inaugural meeting at the National Institutes of…
NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences Announces Partners
As we noted last month, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) unveiled a collaborative program that will match researchers with…
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Brazil and the Pharmaceutical Sector
As the seventh largest economy in the world, “Brazil represents an attractive marketplace for any company in the healthcare…
Are Medical Conferences Useful? The Critics Want them Ended but for What…
Medical progress and the advancement of science depend on a number of factors. Some discoveries take years and years to…