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Gardner Law

CMS Auditing Companies for Sunshine Compliance: Are You Ready?

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As the Sunshine Act reporting deadline of March 31, 2024 draws near, medical device and pharmaceutical companies are gearing up for their Sunshine Act reporting. Are you prepared for a Sunshine Act audit? Reporting...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

On Your Mark, Get Set, Go: Life Science Companies Face A Challenging Year For Compliance With New Open Payment Program Data...

The Physician Payment Sunshine Act (the “Sunshine Act”) – a federal law first adopted as Section 6002 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (“PPACA”) – requires the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Hospitals Were Overpaid $33M Over Device Credits; Policy May Change

Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 42 (November 23, 2020) - Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) will be coming to 911 hospitals for overpayments caused by unreported manufacturer credits for recalled or...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

CMS Announces Enforcement Discretion for Physician Payments Sunshine Act Reporting by Applicable Drug and Device Manufacturers

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CMS announced today that in acknowledgment of the extreme circumstances posed by COVID-19, it will exercise enforcement discretion with respect to any Physician Payments Sunshine Act Open Payments reporting that is submitted...more

Baker Donelson

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

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

SEC-Mylan Settlement: The SEC Filed Suit Regarding Investigation Disclosure

On Sept. 27, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Mylan N.V., a global pharma company that manufactures and sells EpiPen, which is used to treat serious allergic reactions, agreed to pay $30...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

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

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Sunshine Act Expands to Advance Practice Nurses and Physician Assistants

Drug and device manufacturers will need to update their reporting systems and provide new training to their sales staff in the coming years based on changes to the Physician Payment Sunshine Act included in the final opioid...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

CMS Posts Open Payment Data – $7.52 Billion in 2015

CMS published the 2015 Open Payment Data on June 30, 2015. CMS has presented tables in its press release showing the highest paid specialties and highest paying companies. ...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Connecticut Legislature Reduces Mandatory Reporting of Payments to APRNs

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On May 11, 2015, Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy signed into law Public Act 15-4, “An Act Concerning Reporting of Payments by Manufacturers to Independently-Practicing Advanced Practice Registered Nurses” (P.A. 15-4)....more

King & Spalding

CMS Publishes Guidance Regarding Reporting CME Payments Under Open Payments

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On Monday, December 15, 2014, CMS published guidance regarding pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers’ obligations under the Open Payments requirements to report payments they provide indirectly to U.S. physicians in...more

Stinson LLP

CMS Changes Sunshine Rules for CME, Revises List of Data Elements to be Reported

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule with comment period addressing, among other issues, changes to the reporting and data collection requirements imposed upon “applicable manufacturers”...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

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

Polsinelli

You Are Now on the Clock — Sunshine Act Dispute Window Now Open

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Beginning Monday, July 14, 2014, the review, dispute and correction process outlined the National Physician Payment Transparency Program (also known as the "Sunshine Act") opens on CMS's Open Payments website. Physicians and...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

CMS Proposes Changes to Sunshine Act Reporting

Drug and device manufacturers breathing a sigh of relief after completing their 2013 data submissions under the Physician Payment Sunshine Act (the “Sunshine Act’) must now contend with four proposed changes to the Sunshine...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Applicable Manufacturers Face June 30th Deadline for Sunshine Act Reporting

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CMS will begin to enforce what could be significant penalties on manufacturers who fail to report required data. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced a short timeframe before detailed...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Cloudy Skies Ahead for Providers? CMS’ Release of Medicare Billing Data Combined with Physician Payment Sunshine Act Data May...

In February 2013, we reported (on our Healthcare Law Blog) that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the final rule for the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. In the interest of providing more...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

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

Carlton Fields

Data Collection Under The Sunshine Act

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Data collection requirements under the Physician Payment Sunshine Act commenced August 1, 2013. This provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the corresponding regulations require an entity that is...more

Perkins Coie

Getting Ready For The Physician Payment ‘Sunshine’ Rule

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Originally Published in BNA Bloomberg, Medical Devices Law & Industry Report on March 20, 2013. On February 1, 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the long-awaited final regulations for...more

Morgan Lewis

Final Sunshine Act Arrives: Now the Hard Part

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final regulations on the U.S. Sunshine Act on February 8, 2013. Transparency Reports and Reporting of Physician Ownership or Investment Interests, 78 Fed. Reg....more

Perkins Coie

CMS Issues Final Physician Payment Sunshine Act Regulations

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On February 1, 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the long-awaited final regulations implementing the Physician Payment Sunshine Act (Act or Sunshine Act). The Sunshine Act requires drug,...more

BakerHostetler

Physician Payment Sunshine Rule Finalized; Let The Sun Shine In; Payment Reports Flow

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published the final rule implementing the Physician Payment Sunshine Act (Sunshine Act) that requires most manufacturers of drugs, devices, biologics or medical...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

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

Holland & Knight LLP

CMS Issues Final Physician Payment Sunshine Rule

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In an action that will have broad implications for drug and device manufacturers, researchers, distributors, teaching hospitals and physicians, on February 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) publicly...more

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