Last month, the Maine Legislature passed an amendment to the Maine Pharmacy Act to prohibit licensed manufacturers and wholesalers of pharmaceuticals from offering certain gifts to practitioners authorized to prescribe and...more
Yesterday, An Act To Prohibit Certain Gifts to Health Care Practitioners became law in Maine without the signature of the Governor. 32 MRSA § 13759 prohibits licensed pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers and...more
On January 14, 2013, a group of stakeholders, including the AARP and the AFL-CIO, urged the Obama Administration to issue the long-awaited final rule (the “Final Rule”) implementing the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (the...more
Governor Deval Patrick signed into law Massachusetts’ fiscal year 2013 budget on July 8, 2012. The budget includes amendments to the state’s Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Manufacturer Conduct Law, MGL ch. 111N. The...more