Jon Tripp is the senior director of Communications & Public Affairs for PhRMA. He has over 17 years experience leading online initiatives, media relations and public affairs for non-profit organizations, the federal government and political candidates.
While the Open Payments database is a useful tool for health care transparency and to help patients to take an active role in their health care, numbers don’t tell the whole story.
Yesterday, ProPublica released a story, “Error: You Have No Payments from Pharma,” shining a light on some of the problems physicians are facing while trying to register with the online Open Payments/Sunshine system. The article is indicative of many larger issues physicians, teaching hospitals and biopharmaceutical/medical technology companies are facing as they work to register […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
In case you missed it, we talked to Dr. Richard Reiling to get a physician’s perspective on the Sunshine Act. Dr. Reiling currently serves on the board of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education and is a member of the American Medical Association...
On May 1, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that starting in June, physicians and teaching hospitals can begin registering with the online Open Payments/Sunshine system. Registration for physicians and teaching hospitals will have two phases. Phase 1 of registration will begin on June 1 and allows physicians to register with the CMS Enterprise […]
Thanks to those of you who joined us for our second Twitter Q&A as we talked with Thomas Sullivan of Policy and Medicine about the Sunshine Act, the impact of social media and the latest news on physician registration with the Sunshine database. For a full recap of the event, check out our Storify page […]
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents the country’s leading biopharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies. Dialogues+ had the opportunity to ask John Castellani, President and CEO of PhRMA, questions about his organization and the Physician Payments Sunshine Act....
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
In this series, Dialogues+ is taking a look at innovation brought about through collaborations between physicians and biopharmaceutical/medical technology companies. Today, we look to potential future innovations and recent developments from the National Institutes of Health. Accelerating Medicines Partnership In February 2014, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a new public-private partnership, the Accelerating […]
On February 24, USA Today ran a letter to the editor written by PhRMA President John J. Castellani and Biotechnology Industry Organization President Jim Greenwood responding to an editorial that not only mischaracterized the relationships between physicians and biopharmaceutical and medical technology professionals, but also admonished them. An additional rebuttal by Dr. Thomas Stossel, Professor […]
Spread the word: As of February 18th, biopharmaceutical/medical technology organizations and group purchasing organizations (GPOs) can now register and set up their accounts with the Open Payments/Sunshine online database. Biopharmaceutical/medical technology companies are required to register with the database. Registration and data submission will have two phases: Phase 1: This phase will run February 18th […]
With recent clarification from CMS that medical textbooks and journals must be reported as payments/transfers of value made to physicians, Partners for Healthy Dialogues is taking a look at all of the items that will be reported about physicians and teaching hospitals. Any payment or transfer of value from a manufacturer operating in the U.S. […]
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Last October, dozens of professional societies and other organizations, including the American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Cardiology and the American Medical Association, sent a letter to Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, expressing concern over medical journals and textbooks having to be reported under the Sunshine […]