ACCME: Spring Accreditation Updates
In March, the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) was busy with a number of activities, events and…
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Physician Payment Sunshine Act: CMS Delays Data Collection Until 2013
According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, data collection by manufactures will not be required until 2013. See their…
Accountable Care Organizations: CMS Announces Second Round Medicare Shared…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the selection of the first 27 Accountable Care…
Physician Payment Sunshine: French Sunshine Act and Disclosure Rules for…
While U.S. companies are preparing for the final regulations from CMS to implement the Physician Payment Sunshine Act, which will…
Former FDA Commissioner Calls for End of FDA Conflict of Interest Rules
As we noted last month, former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach, M.D., wrote an op-ed in the…
CMS Final Rule on Fraud Prevention
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently announced a final rule that prevents fraud in Medicare and is estimated…
Medscape Physician Compensation Report Physicians Skeptical of ACO Model
Medscape, WebMD’s flagship site for medical professionals, issued a report in the end of April highlighting the opinions of 24,000…
Massachusetts House Votes for Third Year in a Row to Repeal the “Gift Ban”
The Massachusetts State House, for the third year in a row, voted to repeal the controversial Massachusetts Pharmaceutical and…
Living Longer and the NIH Eli Lilly National Center for Advancing…
Over the past few years, health care reform has consistently made news headlines. The significant costs and problems generated by…
ICD-10 Implementation Delay Announced for One Year to October 1, 2014
The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) officially proposed delaying the ICD-10 deadline by an extra year to Oct. 1,…