Sunshine Act, Healthcare Professionals

Here Comes the Sun: What You Need to Know about the Sunshine Act and Its Implementing Rules

by Edward Buthusiem, Cheray Lynch Sieminski | Berkeley Research Group, LLC on 3/20/2013

After years of deliberation, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its long-awaited regulations to implement the specific requirements of the Physician Payment Sunshine Act (Sunshine) on February 1,...more

Physician Payment Sunshine Act: Challenge for Companies, Tool for Enforcers

by Morrison & Foerster LLP on 10/22/2012

Pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, and biotech companies are gearing up for the January 1, 2013 deadline set by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) for companies to begin collecting...more

French Sunshine Act: Implementing Decree to Be Published No Later than October 2012

by McDermott Will & Emery on 9/7/2012

French Law No 2011-2012 on the Strengthening of Health Protection for Medicinal and Health Products, dated 29 December 2011 (known as the French Sunshine Act), imposes new disclosure obligations to health products companies. ...more

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

by King & Spalding on 5/11/2012

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

CMS Delays Data Collection Under ACA's Physician Payments Sunshine Act to January 1, 2013 May 9, 2012

by Duane Morris LLP on 5/10/2012

On May 3, 2012, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) officially announced that it will delay data-collection and reporting requirements under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Physician...more

Sunshine Act Implementation Delayed Until 2013

by Mintz Levin - Health Law on 5/7/2012

With little fanfare, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today on the CMS Blog that it is delaying data collection under the Sunshine Act until 2013. Pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers...more

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

by Poyner Spruill LLP on 2/6/2012

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

Proposed Physician Payment Sunshine Act Regulations Leave Many in the Dark

by Mintz Levin - Health Law on 1/27/2012

Originally published in Health Care Fraud Report, 16 HFRA 80, 01/25/2012. Pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers as well as group purchasing organizations (GPOs) finally received some insight into how the...more

CMS Issues Proposed Sunshine Act Regulations

by Duane Morris LLP on 12/29/2011

Bright-Light Scrutiny on Payments by Drug and Device Makers to Physicians and Teaching Hospitals and Certain Physician Ownership Interests The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published in the Federal...more

CMS Delays Implementation of the Physician Payment Sunshine Act

by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 12/21/2011

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

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

by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 12/19/2011

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

The Physician Payments Sunshine Act: Little Guidance, But Many Potential Risks

by Morrison & Foerster LLP on 10/20/2011

The Physician Payments Sunshine Act (Sunshine Act), passed on March 23, 2010, requires all U.S. manufacturers of drugs, medical devices, biologics, and medical supplies covered under Medicare, Medicaid, or the State...more

Health Law Alert 2010 Volume 2: Physician Payment Sunshine Act

by Ober|Kaler on 12/20/2010

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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