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New California Law Turns Up the Heat on the Sunshine Act: California Physicians and Surgeons Must Provide Notice to Patients About...

Effective January 1, 2023, California Assembly Bill 1278 requires California-licensed physicians and surgeons, including physicians and surgeons licensed under the Medical Practice Act or the Osteopathic Act (but excluding...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

New California Law Requires Physicians to Provide Patients with Notice of the Federal Open Payments Program

A new California law – Assembly Bill 1278, which was signed by the Governor on September 29, 2022 – requires physicians to provide patients with notice of the federal Open Payments database. The federal Open Payments program...more

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Physician Group Monitoring of “Open Payments”

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Is your physician group monitoring the Open Payments database? Each June, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) releases data showcasing the payments made by reporting entities to physician groups and other...more

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CMS Proposes Important New Updates to the Sunshine Act’s Open Payments Program

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its proposed 2022 Physician Fee Schedule rule (Proposed Rule) on July 13, 2021. Included in the rule are several proposed updates to the CMS Open Payments Program,...more

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Do You Have The COVID-19 Blues? Don’t Forget About Sunshine!

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While the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) acknowledges the impact COVID-19 has had on the healthcare industry, CMS does not have the authority to postpone the deadline for Sunshine Act reporting. Accordingly,...more

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DOJ Announces the First Open Payments Program / Sunshine Act Enforcement Action

On October 29, 2020, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the first publicly-available settlement involving alleged violations of CMS’s Open Payments Program, otherwise known as the Sunshine Act. The $9.2 million...more

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Medicare Spreads Sunshine Act Coverage to New Categories of Payments, Recipients

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On November 15, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") finalized changes to the Open Payments Program as part of the CY 2020 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule....more

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CMS Finalizes Changes Expanding the Scope of the Open Payments Program

On November 15, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") finalized changes to the Open Payments Program as part of the CY 2020 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule. The Open Payments reporting requirements,...more

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A bit more Sunshine: CMS proposes collecting additional information on manufacturer payments under the Open Payments program

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Device and drug manufacturers got a small surprise in the annual Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule (at 40,713-16) issued late in July by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) – among many other things, the...more

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CMS Issues Proposed Revisions to Open Payments/Sunshine Act Reporting Requirements

• On July 29, 2019, CMS released its proposed 2020 Physician Fee Schedule rule, which includes the much anticipated proposed regulatory changes to the Sunshine Act/Open Payments program (“Open Payments”). The proposed...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Getting Ready for Open Payments

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Today, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released additional tips regarding submitting Open Payments data. A quick refresher: Submitting data through CMS’s application, Open Payments, is the means to...more

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Blog: Key Takeaways from Government Enforcement Panel at ACI Sunshine Conference

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Recently, representatives from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, United States Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, and Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) for the Office of...more

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Blog: Sunshine Act Media Coverage and CMS’s Response Today

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The Open Payments database has been live for a week now. There has been media coverage, but most has not been the type that many expected. The coverage to date has largely centered on the significant challenges associated...more

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