Physician Payment Sunshine: Physicians Fail to See the Changes Ahead
The Physician Payment Sunshine Act, contained in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), requires pharmaceutical companies and other…
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The Office of Government Ethics Proposed Ethics Rules
The Office of Government Ethics (OGE) is proposing amendments to the ethics rules for government employees. OGE was directed by…
CME and the Health Care Economy Hospitals and Universities Cutting Back
According to a recent article from Medical Marketing & Media, “state-accredited continuing medical education (CME) providers…
CMS to Release Final Rule on Hospital Readmissions
A recent article from Kaiser Health News noted that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will soon release a final…
Physician Payment Sunshine Act: CMS Misses Deadline – Creating…
As we have noted many times on this website, the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (Sunshine Act), which was included in the Patient…
Transparency as a Powerful Tool illustrating Collaboration and Empowering…
Continuing their “Campaign of Shame,” the so-called “investigative journalist” shop ProPublica has been running a series of…
CME Coalition: Congressional Briefing on HIV and CME
As part of its mission to raise awareness about the importance of continuing medical education (CME), the CME Coalition held its…
CME Coalition Congressional Briefing on Breast Cancer and CME
For a typical physician who will practice medicine for 30 to 40 years over the course of his or her career, assessments,…
FDA Guidance on Informed Consent
The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released last month a new guidance,…
FDA Biosimilars Guidance Coming Soon
Biologic products developed over the past three decades and approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) now provide…