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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

Medicare Part D Data Release Continues Transparency Trend

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently added to the trend toward greater health care data transparency by releasing data about the prescription drugs that physicians and other health care providers...more

CME Payments Largely Remain Excluded From Sunshine Act Reporting

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has finalized changes to a number of reporting requirements under the regulations implementing the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (“Final Rule”). When CMS proposed...more

CMS Temporarily Closes the Open Payments System

Open Payments is the website through which pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers (“Manufacturers”) report payments and transfers of value to physicians and teaching hospitals, as required by the Sunshine Act. ...more

More Open Questions About Open Payments Under the Sunshine Act

Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) clouded the process for pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, and group purchasing organizations (“GPOs”), to register and submit reports under the...more

Physician Groups Seek Sunshine Act Changes

Seventy-four state and federal physician organizations, including the American Medical Association, recently asked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) to exclude textbooks and peer-reviewed medical journal...more

CMS Publishes Final Sunshine Act Rule Creating New Regulatory Landscape for Physician-Manufacturer Interactions

Originally published in the Health Care Fraud Report, 17 HFRA 219, on 03/06/2013. The final rule (the ‘‘Final Rule’’) implementing the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (‘‘Sunshine Act’’), published in the Federal...more

CMS Publishes Final Sunshine Act Rule; Data Collection to Begin on August 1, 2013

The long-awaited final rule (the Final Rule) implementing the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (Sunshine Act) has arrived at the Federal Register. It amends key definitions and adds new terms; retains broad reporting...more

Let the Collection and Reporting Begin: CMS Publishes Final Sunshine Act Regulations

The long-awaited final rule (the Final Rule) implementing the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (Sunshine Act) has arrived at the Federal Register. It amends key definitions and adds new terms; retains broad reporting...more

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