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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

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

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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

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Sunshine Act Reporting Requirements Expanded to Physician Assistants and Advance Practice Nurses

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Applicable manufacturers will need to update their methods of documenting payments and transfers of value to include the newly expanded list of providers. A bill recently signed into law expands the reporting requirements...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: Federal Sunshine Act Reporting Requirements Expanded to Other Prescribers

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Currently, the federal Physician Payments Sunshine Act (Sunshine Act) requires certain manufacturers of drugs, biologics, medical devices and medical supplies for which payment is available under Medicare, Medicaid or the...more

Troutman Pepper

Future Expansion of Sunshine Act Reporting to Cover Additional Prescribers

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On October 24, President Trump signed into law the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act (SUPPORT Act)....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

Morgan Lewis

Senate Bill Would Require Disclosure of Payments to Patient Advocacy Organizations Under Sunshine Act

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Recently introduced legislation would expand the US Physician Payments Sunshine Act to include reporting of financial ties between pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers and patient advocacy organizations. Any such...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

New Bill Would Expand the Sunshine Act to Cover Physician Assistants and Advance Practice Nurses

Late last month, Senators Grassley (R-IA), Brown (D-OH), and Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced the Fighting the Opioid Epidemic with Sunshine Act, a bill that would expand Physician Payment Sunshine Act reporting requirements to...more

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Blog: CMS Announces Updated Guidance Related to CME Reporting and Issues New Sunshine FAQs

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Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it updated its Open Payments Law and Policy webpage and issued 3 frequently asked questions (FAQs) related to the reporting of payments and...more

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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

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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Healthcare Alert: Better Late than Never - The Sunshine Act Final Regulations are Finally Here!

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Late afternoon on Friday February 1, 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") published the final rule regarding Transparency Reports and Reporting of Physician Ownership or Investment Interests ("Final...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

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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

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

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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