The FDA had approved the mesh—called the Collagen Scaffold—in December 2008. But after the change in administrations the following month, the agency decided that the approval process had been flawed and had been the focus of...more
Last month the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced still further relaxation of its oversight over anything qualifying as a “medical device data system,” or MDDS. The announcement should come as welcome news to a great...more
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
The 340B program requires pharmaceutical manufacturers with Medicaid-covered products to give discounts on covered drugs purchased by eligible entities, which include disproportionate share hospitals, critical access...more