CMS Plan To Remove Speaker Payment Disclosure Exemption: Stigmatizing Or Administrative?
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
A proposal by CMS to remove an explicit exemption from Open Payments/Sunshine Act disclosure requirements for certain continuing medical education speakers will unnecessarily stigmatize physicians, says a CME industry group, but CMS and others suggest the proposed change will not have much, if any, practical impact on physicians or companies.
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