Light from sunshine bill may reach more targets
Executive Summary
Co-sponsors of the Physicians Payment Sunshine Act are discussing broadening its beam to cover more recipients of industry funding. Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has recommended that a public database include not only pharmaceutical and device company payments to physicians, but also to academic medical centers, continuing medical education organizations and patient and physician advocacy groups (1"The Pink Sheet," Sept. 8, 2008, p. 20). It is anticipated that CME providers will be covered when PPSA is reintroduced in 2009, according to a staffer at the Senate Aging Committee, whose chairman, Herb Kohl, D-Wis., co-authored the bill with Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa
You may also be interested in...
Physician Payment Disclosure Bill Should Include Other Entities – MedPAC
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is recommending a more comprehensive system for reporting pharmaceutical industry payments than the one proposed in legislation pending before Congress
EU Regulatory Assessors Get AI Boost In Reaching Scientific Decisions
The European Medicines Agency is training scientific staff working for the European medicines regulatory network in how to use a new AI-powered search engine that allows them to easily retrieve information on regulatory precedents.
EU Parliament Stricter Than Council On Medicines And Medical Devices Packaging
The EU Parliament's Environment, Public Health and Food Safety committee takes a compromise position with regards to the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive. Medicines and medical devices should be exempt, but only until 2035, at which point the European Commission should check whether the development of materials and the recycling process have progressed, and may adjust this exemption accordingly.