The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments program (aka the Sunshine Act) just got much cloudier. When CMS issued its Final Rule in 2013, it stated that the compensation physicians received for teaching continuing medical education (CME) activities did not have to be discl...
we inch closer and closer to August 1, 2013, the start date for collecting and tracking data in order to comply with the reporting regulations. The Final Rule, which was formulated by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), establishes the regulations for enacting the Sunshi...
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 these programs ...