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Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Virtual Event] Research Compliance Conference - November 12th, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm CT

Stay on top of developments in healthcare research compliance - Whether you missed the 2024 in-person Higher Education & Healthcare Research Compliance Conference in New Orleans, or are looking for additional insights...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Transparency and the Open Payments Program

To quote CMS, “The Open Payments program is a national disclosure program that promotes a more transparent and accountable health care system. Open Payments houses a publicly accessible database of payments that reporting...more

Gardner Law

REMINDER: Sunshine Act reporting deadline is March 31, 2023

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Sunshine Act reporting for Program Year 2022 (January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2022) must be submitted to CMS via the Open Payments System by March 31, 2023. What is the Sunshine Act? - The Physician Payments Sunshine...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

AGG Food & Drug Newsletter - February 2023

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP's Food & Drug Newsletter is a roundup of legal and regulatory issues that affect the FDA-regulated community and highlights articles from members of our Food & Drug practice, as well as from...more

Buchalter

New Patient Disclosure Requirement Effective January 1, 2023

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To increase transparency regarding payments to physicians by drug and medical device companies, Governor Newsom signed AB 1278, which imposes certain additional disclosure obligations on physicians. Beginning on January 1,...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

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

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

California Legislative Update Part I: New Requirements for Licensed Health Care Professionals

As of the close of the 2021-22 legislative session, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law health care related legislation tackling issues from management of health care costs to reproductive rights. In Part I of our...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

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

California Passes First State Law Requiring Physicians to Disclose Open Payments Database to Patients

Effective January 1, 2023, the recently enacted California Assembly Bill 1278,requires a physician and surgeon (defined as a physician and surgeon licensed pursuant to the Medical Practice Act or an osteopathic physician and...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

California Passes New Law Requiring Physicians and their Employers to Notify Patients about the Open Payments Database

A new California law (AB 1278) will require physicians and their employers to provide patients with several forms of notices about the Open Payments database, starting January 1, 2023. The law is intended to increase...more

Gardner Law

Anti-Fraud & Sunshine Update

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Staying up-to-date with fraud enforcement trends and recent cases and settlements can sometimes be viewed as a “Glass Half Empty” perspective, focusing on negative aspects of the industry and the perceived threat of...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Virtual Event] 2022 Research Conference - October 6th, 8:25 am - 4:30 pm CDT

Stay on top of the latest in research compliance - Do you want to learn: - Current best practices for building and maintaining a  research compliance work plan? - How to better shift your program’s research focus in...more

Williams Mullen

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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Research Compliance Conference - June 8th - 10th, Anaheim, CA

Hear about the latest in research compliance - Do you want to learn… - How to prepare for upcoming changes in Medicaid? - Ways to build and maintain a better research compliance work plan for your program? - How...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - February 11th, Grapevine, TX

Looking for compliance training and networking in your area? HCCA’s Regional Healthcare Compliance Conferences offer practitioners convenient, local compliance training, including updates on the latest news in regulatory...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

CNIL Publishes White Paper on Digital Payments and Data Privacy

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The French Data Protection Authority’s white paper discusses how companies can comply with data privacy and security obligations. The use of card, contactless, and innovative digital payment solutions has significantly...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

AGG Food & Drug Newsletter - August 2021

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP's Food & Drug Newsletter is a monthly update of legal and regulatory issues that affect the FDA-regulated community and highlights articles from members of our Food & Drug practice, as well as from...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

The Times They Are A-Changin’: CMS Solicits Comments to Proposed Changes to the Open Payments Program

Since the April 2013 effective date of the Final Rule implementing the “National Physician Payment Transparency Program: Open Payments” (also known as the federal “Sunshine Law”), CMS has been annually collecting information...more

Goodwin

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

Bricker Graydon LLP

CMS proposes changes to Stark Law regulations and Open Payments Program

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On July 13, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the calendar year 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule (Proposed Rule). Included in that Proposed Rule are proposals related to the...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Latest Open Payments Data Released Under Heightened Government Scrutiny

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On June 30, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) released Open Payments data for the past year, 2020. This new data publication comes amid heightened government scrutiny of payments by drug and medical device...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

Who can’t see problems in medical device makers paying surgeons billions?

Billions of dollars have flown from medical device makers to specialists performing back, spine, knee, and hip surgeries, with unsavory cash and practices also accompanying that fiscal tide. Industry officials and...more

Cozen O'Connor

Medical Device Company Settles With Seven States Over Alleged Kickbacks And False Claims

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Medical device company Medicrea USA, Inc. and its corporate parent Medicrea International (collectively, “Medicrea”) settled with California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, New York, and Texas, and the U.S....more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Manufacturers Be Advised: Sunshine Act / Open Payments Enforcement is on the Rise

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...more

MoFo Life Sciences

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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