“Most physicians (94%) reported some type of relationship with the pharmaceutical industry, and most of these relationships involved receiving food in the workplace (83%) or receiving drug samples (78%). More than one third of the respondents (35%) received reimbursement for costs associ...
Pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers should be advised that the government is using its enforcement authority under the Open Payments Program (otherwise known as the Sunshine Act) in conjunction with the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) against manufacturers for alleged kickbacks paid to ...
pharmaceutical companies to be more transparent with their research data in 2010. He says that the rules proposed in the healthcare reform bill of President Barack Obama had first been proposed in the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. As a consequence, he says that growing interest in protocols ...
Cast Your Vote The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed eliminating the exclusion for continuing medical education (CME) in the so-called Sunshine Act (the Open Payments program). This means that pharmaceutical and medical device companies would have to disclose the cost of...
Recently, concerns over physicians' conflict of interest have increased as the details of some doctors' consulting relationships with pharmaceutical companies surface. In an effort to cleanse medicine of egregiously conflicted doctors, Senator Grassley proposed of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act ("...
A 2004 task force appointed by the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation (ABIM) and the Institute on Medicine as a Profession (IMAP) found existing guidelines to be lax.1 At that time, the industry's Pharmaceutical Research and......
Enacted in 2010 as part of the Affordable Care Act, the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (PPSA) mandates transparency in financial interactions between pharmaceutical companies and healthcare providers. This study investigates the PPSA's effectiveness and its impact on industry...
pharmaceutical industryartificial intelligencemarketingSunshine ActOPINION LEADERSOF-INTERESTPAYMENTSCORRUPTIONHow corporations surveil and influence consumers using big data tools is a major area of research and public debate. However, few studies explore it in relation to physicians in the USA, even though...