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Health Reform Mandates Transparency in Industry/Provider Relationship

The Sunshine Law mandates public disclosure of payments and gifts by pharmaceutical, device, medical supply, and biotechnology companies to physicians and teaching hospitals for a wide array of purposes.

24 minute read February 28, 2011 at 10:54 AM
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Tracy E. Miller
Health Reform Mandates Transparency in Industry/Provider Relationship

National health care reform legislation adopted in March 2010 contained numerous provisions to promote transparency in the health care delivery system. Most significantly, ' 6002 of the legislation included provisions that comprised the Physician Payments Sunshine Act previously introduced as a separate bill (Sunshine Law).

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