What Are the Main Issues Involved with The Implementation of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act?

Administrative and legal issues involved with the CMS’s Sunshine Rule including reviewing and disputing payments manufacturers of drug and medical device report to CMS.

Drug and Medical Device Manufacturers Need to Comply with the ACA’s Sunshine Act – Part One

The Sunshine Rule of the Affordable Care Act requires that drug and medical device manufacturers disclose to CMS any payments they made for the benefit of physicians regarding the drugs or devices.

Physicians are shifting to concierge medicine and direct pay, or joining health networks

The private practice of medicine increasingly is disappearing or morphing into concierge medicine, direct pay, or practice through giant health systems, reports the Los Angeles Times.

Affordable Care Act creates scope of practice legislative scramble for healthcare practitioners

Healthcare reform is creating incentives for even more legislative scrambles by different practitioner lobbying groups for favorable legislation that will protect, preserve, and expand their own [...]

Health Care Reform – Legal – Part 3: Longevity & Anti-Aging Medicine, Genomics, Robotics, Nanotechnology, and The New Healthcare Legal Landscape

Healthcare reform—aka “Obamacare”—changes much of the financial, tax, and insurance landscape for healthcare. However, it leaves huge swathes of healthcare law untouched.

Health Care Reform – Legal – Part 2: The New Regulatory Landscape

Health care reform will continue with a myriad of legal and regulatory changes over the next few years.

Health Care Reform – Legal & Regulatory – Part 1: The Supreme Court Opinion

In National Federation of Independent Business, et al. v. Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al., the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the so-called “individual mandate” in [...]