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CMS Audits on the Horizon: Prepare for Increased CMS Audits Under the Sunshine Act

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Historically, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has not aggressively pursued enforcement activity under the Sunshine Act. However, this may change in 2024. Late last year, CMS updated its Open Payments...more

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Sunshine Act Expands to Advance Practice Nurses and Physician Assistants

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Drug and device manufacturers will need to update their reporting systems and provide new training to their sales staff in the coming years based on changes to the Physician Payment Sunshine Act included in the final opioid...more

King & Spalding

CMS Publishes Open Payments Data Detailing Payments and Transfers of Value Provided by Life Sciences Manufacturers to Physicians...

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On September 30, 2014, CMS published data regarding payments and transfers of value that pharmaceutical, biologic, and medical device manufacturers provided to U.S. physicians and teaching hospitals during the period August 1...more

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CMS Shuts Down Sunshine Act Online Verification Process

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On August 7, 2014, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that the Open Payments system is “temporarily” off-line. The CMS announcement did not state when the Open Payments system would be back on-line....more

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Dark Clouds Over Sunshine Act

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Once again the Obama administration has been tripped up in launching a healthcare-related online system. This time the problem concerns the Physician Payments Sunshine Act—the act that is supposed to enable the public to see...more

Morgan Lewis

FDA Issues Updated Draft Guidance on Reporting Drug Samples

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The guidance calls for 2014 reporting by April 1, 2015. When signed into law in March 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) put a renewed focus on transparency. While section 6002, the Physician Payment Sunshine Act,...more

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CMS Wants To Shine Light On CME Payments To Physicians

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It’s a question CMS has been wrestling with since the enactment of the Sunshine Act (sometimes called the Open Payments Program) as part of the Affordable Care Act. The Sunshine Act generally requires a manufacturer to...more

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Health Headlines: Also in the News - May 2014

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CMS Seeks Additional Comments on Sunshine Rule Dispute Resolution and Correction Procedures – CMS is seeking additional comments on dispute resolution and correction procedures under the Sunshine Rule. According to the...more

Nexsen Pruet, PLLC

The Physician Payment Sunshine Act – The Top Five Steps for Physicians: The law defines “payment” to include almost any imaginable...

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The Physician Payment Sunshine Act is a minor part of the Affordable Care Act, but it could result in major headaches for physicians. The chief purpose of the Sunshine Act is to make any payments made by medical manufacturers...more

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CMS Releases Long-Awaited Details for Sunshine Act Compliance

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The Physician Payment Sunshine Act (the "Act") was enacted as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act for the purpose of promoting transparency between the medical industry and health care providers. It...more

Carlton Fields

Data Collection Under The Sunshine Act

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Data collection requirements under the Physician Payment Sunshine Act commenced August 1, 2013. This provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the corresponding regulations require an entity that is...more

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Highlighting Transparency Through The Federal Sunshine Act Regulations

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The final regulations implementing the Physician Payments Sunshine Act take effect April 9, 2013. Pharmaceutical manufacturers, group purchasing organizations, academic medical centers and physicians need to be ready to...more

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Getting Ready For The Physician Payment ‘Sunshine’ Rule

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Originally Published in BNA Bloomberg, Medical Devices Law & Industry Report on March 20, 2013. On February 1, 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the long-awaited final regulations for...more

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CMS Issues Rules On Physician Payments Sunshine Act

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People like to think they have it the hardest in life. I call it the competition among victims. If you are in the healthcare industry and fall under the Physician Payments regulations, then I think you are on your way to...more

Morgan Lewis

Final Sunshine Act Arrives: Now the Hard Part

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final regulations on the U.S. Sunshine Act on February 8, 2013. Transparency Reports and Reporting of Physician Ownership or Investment Interests, 78 Fed. Reg....more

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Physician Payment Sunshine Act Final Rule Released

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In This Issue: - Interpretation and Clarification of Key Definitions ..Applicable Manufacturers ..Applicable GPOs ..Covered Drug, Device, Biological or Medical Supply ..Covered Recipients ...more

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Healthcare Companies Need to Update Compliance

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The Supreme Court’s decision upholding most of the Affordable Care Act increased compliance responsibilities for healthcare companies. The ACA amended the False Claims Act (FCA), which was amended in 2009 in the Fraud...more

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Senators Push CMS to Implement Physician Payments Sunshine Act

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In a roundtable discussion of the Senate Special Committee on Aging last week, Senators Chuck Grassley and Herb Kohl called on CMS to issue final regulations implementing the Physician Payment Sunshine Act, which was enacted...more

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Ober|Kaler Health Care Reform Update: In the Wake of the SCOTUS’s Affordable Care Act Decision: What’s Next for Health Care...

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In March 2010 the hotly contested Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) (ACA or the Act) was signed into law by President Obama. Since its enactment, some health care providers have struggled to meet the Act’s current...more

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CMS Announces it Will Not Require Data Collection by Manufacturers under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act Before January 1,...

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Margaret Tavenner, Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS or the “Agency”), issued a letter to Senator Chuck Grassley on May 3, 2012 formally responding to a letter sent to her by Senator...more

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What Hospitals and Physicians Need to Know about CMS’s Proposed Rule Interpreting the Physician Payment Sunshine Act

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued on December 14, 2011 its much-anticipated proposed rule interpreting the requirements of the Physician Payment Sunshine Act (Act), enacted by Congress as Section 6002...more

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CMS Delays Implementation of the Physician Payment Sunshine Act

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Considerably after the statutory deadline of October 1, 2011, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finally has issued proposed regulations aimed at implementing what is known as the "Physician Payment Sunshine...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"Sunshine Act Begins to See Light of Day: CMS Issues Proposed Rule Implementing Physician-Payment Reporting Requirements"

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On December 14, 2011, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its long-awaited proposed rule to implement Section 6002 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly known as the Physician Payment Sunshine...more

Baker Donelson

Health Law Alert 2010 Volume 2: Physician Payment Sunshine Act

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (H.R. 3590) signed into law in March 2010 includes the Physician Payment Sunshine Act (section 6002) (PPSA), which requires pharmaceutical, medical device, biological, and...more

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