Thursday, January 17, 2013

Clamor for Sunshine Act Rules Continues

Clamor for Sunshine Act Rules Continues-medpage: Demand is growing for the Obama administration to issue regulations implementing the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (PPSA), a provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires drug and device makers to publicly disclose their financial relationships with physicians, including how much money they are being paid. On Tuesday, a group of prominent physicians including former New England Journal of Medicine editors Marcia Angell, MD, and Jerome Kassirer, MD, wrote to outgoing White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew expressing their concerns about the lack of action.