CME webinar primes PCPs on advances in Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis and treatment More than 6 million people in the U.S. are estimated to be living with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and that number is expected to double by 2050. With a scarcity of Alzheimer’s specialists across the country, diagnosis and care commonly fall to primary care […]
Category Archives: Physician Payment Sunshine Act
CME, Congress, Open Payments, Physician Payment Sunshine Act, Social Media
“Encouraging Continuing Medical Education For Physicians” Incorporated Into Newly Updated 21st Century Cures Discussion Draft
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Apr
Apr
Notable updates to January’s Draft include bipartisan concessions: New provisions to increase NIH funding; removal of provisions for increased exclusivity periods. Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee released an updated discussion draft of 21st Century Cures legislation (view the legislative text, whittled from 400 pages to 199 pages since January); a section-by-section explainer; and a 1-page summary). “The […]
Affordable Care Act, CME, CMS, FDA, Healthcare Reform, Physician Payment Sunshine Act
21st Century Cures Initiative Introduces Significant Legislative Proposal
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Jan
Jan
In April 2014, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) partnered with Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) to launch the 21st Century Cures initiative with an important goal: to accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery of new treatments and cures for patients. Over the course of nearly a year, patients, providers, innovators, regulators, and researchers […]
A new bill has been introduced that would exempt from Sunshine Act reporting educational materials and transfers relating to continuing medical education. Congressmen Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade, and Peter DeFazio (D-OR) recently introduced the Protect Continuing Physician Education and Patient Care […]
CME, Open Payments, Physician Payment Sunshine Act
Physician Payment Sunshine Act: Council of Medical Specialty Societies Urges CMS To “Promptly Issue Revised Guidance” on CME Exemption FAQs and Website Q&As
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Jan
Jan
Last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued three FAQs and a page of website guidance to supplement their recent decision to remove the continuing medical education (CME) exemption from the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Unfortunately this guidance adds significant confusion by contradicting CMS’s own rationale for their revision to the Final […]
CME, CMS, Open Payments, Physician Payment Sunshine Act
Physician Payments Sunshine Act: CMS Releases Continuing Medical Education FAQs, Interpretations Appear Inconsistent With Final Regulations and CMS’s Own Statements In the Final Rule
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Dec
Dec
Yesterday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued three FAQs and an example grid to supplement their recent revision to the Physician Payments Sunshine Act continuing medical education (CME) exemption. Instead of clarifying the new Rule, however, this latest round of sub-regulatory guidance—which was not subject to notice or comment—actually confuses and […]
CME, Open Payments, Physician Payment Sunshine Act
Physician Payments Sunshine Act: Rep. Burgess Addresses New Bill to Exempt Medical Texts and CME at Committee Meeting
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Nov
Nov
At a recent meeting in Washington, D.C., Rep. Michael Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) spoke to the importance of H.R. 5539, bipartisan legislation he co-sponsored that would exempt peer-reviewed medical journal reprints and independent continuing medical education from Sunshine Act reporting. Burgess serves as Vice Chairman of the Subcommittee on Health in the Energy and Commerce Committee, […]
September 2nd marked the last day for comments on CMS’ proposed rule to eliminate the accredited continuing medical education (CME) exemption from Sunshine Act reporting. In an overwhelming display of support for the exemption, over 800 comments were submitted encouraging the agency to either maintain or expand the current exclusion. -Total comments supporting maintenance […]
CME, Physician Payment Sunshine Act
Council of Medical Specialty Societies Petitions CMS To Maintain CME Exemption
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Aug
Aug
The Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS), which represents forty-one societies with an aggregate membership of 750,000 U.S. physicians, recently submitted their comments to CMS regarding the proposal to eliminate the CME exemption from the Final Rule implementing the Sunshine Act. They ask CMS to keep Section 403.904(g)(1) as written for a number of […]
CME, Open Payments, Physician Payment Sunshine Act
Physician Payment Sunshine Act: AAFP Raises Concerns with CMS Proposal to Remove Accredited CME Exclusion
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Aug
Aug
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) “strongly disagrees” with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposal to eliminate the continuing medical education exemption from the Sunshine Act. AAFP, which represents 115,900 family physicians and medical students across the country, wrote to CMS to outline their concerns that the proposal would create “an […]
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