The Sunshine Act: Putting It into Practice – Interview with Karen Lovitch, Member, Mintz Levin
For some companies that make and distribute medical devices and drugs, and for group purchasing organizations (GPOs), reporting financial information to the U.S. government has become a regular part of doing business. The...more
A new California law – Assembly Bill 1278, which was signed by the Governor on September 29, 2022 – requires physicians to provide patients with notice of the federal Open Payments database. The federal Open Payments program...more
Is your physician group monitoring the Open Payments database? Each June, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) releases data showcasing the payments made by reporting entities to physician groups and other...more
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
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
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
On July 29, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Medicare CY 2020 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule (the Proposed Rule), including proposed changes to regulations implementing the...more
• 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
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
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
On October 3, 2018, the U.S. Congress passed the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act (“SUPPORT Act”). If enacted, as of January 1, 2022,...more
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
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
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
Late last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the 2015 physician payment fee schedule, which includes changes to the Final Rule implementing the federal Sunshine law. ...more
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
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
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
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
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
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
Reports on Physician Ownership and Investment Interests The Sunshine Act requires applicable manufacturers, as well as applicable GPOs, to report to the Secretary, in electronic form, certain information concerning...more
Report Submission and Review Pre-Submission Review is Not Required Applicable manufacturers may voluntarily provide covered recipients the opportunity to review the data prior to submission to CMS, but doing so is not...more
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
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