The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today the final regulations to implement the Physician Payment Sunshine Act—Section 6002 of the Affordable Care Act. You can find the final ...

In 2010, the “investigative journalist organization” known as ProPubilca, through donations from the Pew Foundation and several other organizations geared towards attacking industry, began the ...

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. (“Novartis”) announced that it has earmarked funds to settle allegations brought by the US Department of Justice (“DOJ”) that it made illegal kickback payments to ...

This week, Harvard Medical School (HMS) released its 2009-2010 report from the Faculty of Medicine Committee on Conflicts of Interest and Commitment, an advisory committee appointed by HMS Dean ...

When it comes to our health, “collaboration between physicians and biopharmaceutical professionals is essential to improving the care we receive and developing new medicines. Whether it is ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the proposed regulations for the Physician Payment Sunshine Provisions of Affordable Care Act. In this rule there is extended discussion ...

The first two pages of the proposal include a letter written in May by Attorney General Grewal to Members of State Board of Dentistry. In the letter, the Attorney General agreed that the $15.00 limit ...

Readers may remember late last year when the Trump Administration published the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Price Transparency final rule which requires hospitals to post the ...

A recent research piece published in the Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) research team, Physician ...

There has been much discussion and study regarding the role of continuing medical education (CME) in improving patient care. Physicians who are educated about the latest advances in evidence-based ...

Pacira Biosciences has filed a libel lawsuit against the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and other defendants seeking pecuniary damages and the retraction of three articles published in ...

On May 3, 2021, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed HB1709 into law, which prohibits manufacturers from offering discounts on any insulin product. Under the law, pharmaceutical manufacturer ...