Many people in CME are breathing a sigh of relief that the Sunshine Act isn't a bad thing for them, but whether it's the white knight that comes to their rescue remains to be seen, say providers. The transparency rules, set to lay bare financial ties between physicians and pharma, spare some forms of medical education but not others, and they also spawn fresh questions.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, part of HHS, issued its long-delayed final rule for collecting data on industry payments to physicians earlier this month. The regulations exempt reporting payments to an accredited provider of CME under a physician speaker's name, granted that certain criteria are met.
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