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General

NJ Gift Ban Linking Compliance with Physician Licensure Is Finalized

NJ Gift Ban Linking Compliance with Physician Licensure Is Finalized

Jan. 8, 2018 – The New Jersey ban on “gifts” from the pharmaceutical industry, an administrative action finalized on Dec. 22, 2017, will go into effect on Jan. 15 of this year and will be “the first of its kind for any state” to link compliance with physician licensure and apply to physicians, not the […]

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Legislative

Kamp: N.J. Proposed Rule Would Hurt, Not Help Opioid Situation

Kamp: N.J. Proposed Rule Would Hurt, Not Help Opioid Situation

Oct. 19, 2017 – A New Jersey proposal to both prohibit prescribers from accepting even moderate meals and cap compensation for speeches, consulting or other services from pharmaceutical companies – in an attempt to target the unnecessary prescription of opioids – actually could be counterproductive in meeting that goal, according to Coalition for Healthcare Communication […]

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Washington Focus

Oh, the Burdens We Bear: Commentary by Jack Angel

Oh, the Burdens We Bear: Commentary by Jack Angel

By Jack Angel, Executive Director, Coalition for Healthcare Communication Education Foundation July 10, 2017 — Although the population of Washington, D.C., is 681,200 and the folks who control it are far fewer, what happens on this tiny sliver of land that Washington occupies influences both our country and the world. In the extreme, decisions made […]

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Vermont Gift Ban and Disclosure Fines Provide Glimpse of Possible Issues under Sunshine Act

Oct. 21, 2013 – An announcement by the Vermont Attorney General citing 25 manufacturers for allegedly violating the state’s “Prescribed Product Gift Ban and Disclosure Law” gives companies a snapshot of the scrutiny and issues they may face under the Physician Payment Sunshine Act, according to a recent Policy and Medicine posting.   Policy and […]

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Massachusetts to Hold Oct. 19 Public Hearing to Discuss “Modest Meal” Exception

Sept. 28, 2012 – Pharmaceutical and medical device companies may be allowed to provide “modest meals and refreshments” at non-continuing medical education (CME) events in Massachusetts if proposed “emergency amendments” to the state’s law covering codes of conduct for these industries are adopted. An Oct. 19 hearing is planned to discuss the amendments. In July, […]

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Sunshine or Rain?

By Jack E. Angel, Education Foundation Executive Director, Coalition for Healthcare Communication Jan. 17, 2012 — The Affordable Care Act (ACA), passed to improve America’s healthcare system and reduce its costs, included the “Sunshine” provision to create a national registry of payments and transfers of other items of value from healthcare manufacturers and group purchasing […]

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CMS Misses Sunshine Act Rule Deadline

Oct. 4, 2011 — According to a recent article posted today on the Policy and Medicine Web site, the authors of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act — Sens. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) — have sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Donald Berwick expressing their “severe disappointment” that proposed regulations to […]

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Pitts on the Politics of Drug Industry Sponsorship

Oct. 3, 2011 – In his recent Drugwonks blog, Peter Pitts, president and co-founder of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, suggests that attempts to separate clinicians, medical researchers and drug companies may not be in patients’ best interests. “We must dismantle the battlements and embrace [a] philosophy of ‘symbiosis not schism.’ It’s what’s […]

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