This document provides an overview and guide to Open Payments compliance. Open Payments, also known as the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, requires applicable drug, medical device, and medical supply manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value provided to physicians and teaching hospitals. It aims to increase transparency around financial relationships in the healthcare industry. The document defines key terms like applicable manufacturers and covered recipients, outlines what types of payments and transfers must be reported, and provides compliance deadlines and penalties for non-compliance.
PPSA is a new act... recently passed in USA.
To monitor the culture between pharma companies and doctors like receiving incentives ,gifts and prescribing those companies drugs
Due to this act , people will be more safer with drugs and healthcare cost burden will reduced...and to know more about act... see the presentration..
IDNs generally provide primary care, acute care, specialty care (including clinics), long-term care, and home health
care.
IDNs often leverage their size to increase purchasing power, negotiating lower prices with
medical device suppliers
Top 25 IDNs by number of ACO affiliations: 49 hospitals in-network, $9.4 billion in net patient revenue
Types of ACOs: CMS ACO Models, Medicaid ACOs, Commercial ACO
The Physician’s Sunshine Act will impose changes in the way that healthcare meeting planners manage data and reporting. Disclosure of payments for Transfer of Value (TOV) will soon be required and violations for non-compliance can lead to stiff penalties and other ramifications for you and your organization. Find out from meeting experts what they are doing to prepare for the new regulations for transparency and accountability.
Sunshine Act Compliance Analysis by WorldDataOnline. Comprehensive, individual, and highly specific company reports will be available shortly. https://worlddata.online/Product/Subscription/LATEST---2015---Sunshine-Act-Compliance-Analyzer
Decoding the Sunshine Act - What Exactly are Manufacturers Reporting and How ...Vanessa Towning
Topics Include:
- Defining the Sunshine Act as it relates to medical offices
- What is a “transfer of value?”
- Weighing the benefits of rep interactions
- Free apps available to help you keep up to date on recorded information.
The document provides an overview of health insurance in India. It defines health insurance and describes what a typical health insurance policy covers, including room and boarding expenses, nursing costs, surgeon fees, and medical treatment costs. It notes that over 80% of Indians lack health insurance coverage. The major types of health insurance policies in India include hospitalization plans, pre-existing disease plans, senior citizen plans, maternity plans, daily cash plans, and critical illness plans. The document also outlines several government-run health insurance schemes in India like RSBY, Ayushman Bharat, and state-specific programs. It concludes with a discussion of public and private agencies involved in providing health insurance in India.
PPSA is a new act... recently passed in USA.
To monitor the culture between pharma companies and doctors like receiving incentives ,gifts and prescribing those companies drugs
Due to this act , people will be more safer with drugs and healthcare cost burden will reduced...and to know more about act... see the presentration..
IDNs generally provide primary care, acute care, specialty care (including clinics), long-term care, and home health
care.
IDNs often leverage their size to increase purchasing power, negotiating lower prices with
medical device suppliers
Top 25 IDNs by number of ACO affiliations: 49 hospitals in-network, $9.4 billion in net patient revenue
Types of ACOs: CMS ACO Models, Medicaid ACOs, Commercial ACO
The Physician’s Sunshine Act will impose changes in the way that healthcare meeting planners manage data and reporting. Disclosure of payments for Transfer of Value (TOV) will soon be required and violations for non-compliance can lead to stiff penalties and other ramifications for you and your organization. Find out from meeting experts what they are doing to prepare for the new regulations for transparency and accountability.
Sunshine Act Compliance Analysis by WorldDataOnline. Comprehensive, individual, and highly specific company reports will be available shortly. https://worlddata.online/Product/Subscription/LATEST---2015---Sunshine-Act-Compliance-Analyzer
Decoding the Sunshine Act - What Exactly are Manufacturers Reporting and How ...Vanessa Towning
Topics Include:
- Defining the Sunshine Act as it relates to medical offices
- What is a “transfer of value?”
- Weighing the benefits of rep interactions
- Free apps available to help you keep up to date on recorded information.
The document provides an overview of health insurance in India. It defines health insurance and describes what a typical health insurance policy covers, including room and boarding expenses, nursing costs, surgeon fees, and medical treatment costs. It notes that over 80% of Indians lack health insurance coverage. The major types of health insurance policies in India include hospitalization plans, pre-existing disease plans, senior citizen plans, maternity plans, daily cash plans, and critical illness plans. The document also outlines several government-run health insurance schemes in India like RSBY, Ayushman Bharat, and state-specific programs. It concludes with a discussion of public and private agencies involved in providing health insurance in India.
HMOs and PPOs in USA (Healthcare Management Functions)Abdu Naf'an
The document provides an overview of HMOs and PPOs in the US healthcare system. It defines HMOs as organizations that combine health insurance and healthcare delivery, requiring members to use providers in the HMO network. PPOs allow members to use out-of-network providers but with higher costs. The document then discusses key differences between the two models such as network size, cost structures, claims processes and more. It analyzes trends in HMOs and PPOs and concludes there is no single better option, as preferences depend on individual health needs and priorities around affordability versus flexibility of choice.
The document discusses transparency requirements for reporting payments and transfers of value from applicable manufacturers to covered recipients such as physicians. It provides an overview of the federal "Sunshine" provisions and state transparency laws. Key points include who must report, what must be reported, reporting deadlines, and preemption of similar state laws.
The U.S. health care system utilizes both privately funded and publicly funded payors. Over time, federal and state laws have influenced the development of different types of health plans. The government plays key roles in enacting laws to regulate and protect consumers, providing direct health care services, and acting as a payor through programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act.
WellPoint is working to address challenges in the US healthcare system related to affordability, access, quality care, and improved health. Regarding affordability, WellPoint is achieving administrative cost savings, helping contain healthcare costs, and providing consumers with information to help manage their own costs. For access, WellPoint is creating more affordable coverage options, finding ways to provide coverage to low-income Americans, and overcoming barriers like language and lack of local resources. Regarding quality care, WellPoint is collaborating with healthcare providers to improve clinical performance and establish evidence-based best practices. WellPoint also offers health improvement programs to help members manage chronic conditions and contribute to better health outcomes.
This document discusses pay for performance (P4P) and its implications for healthcare organizations. It explains that P4P aims to improve quality by directly incentivizing superior care delivery. The document outlines drivers of P4P like rising healthcare costs and quality issues. It also reviews current P4P programs and discusses strategies organizations can take to prepare, like integrating performance data and contracting approaches that reward quality and efficiency.
US healthcare insurance can be public (e.g. Medicare, Medicaid) or private (employer or self-purchased plans). Medicare has parts A, B, C, and D that cover different services like hospitals (Part A) and prescription drugs (Part D). Plans may require premiums, deductibles, co-payments, or co-insurance. They often have limits and do not cover all costs. Private insurers provide additional plans like PPOs, HMOs, or Medicare Advantage plans combining Part A, B, and D benefits. SCHIP provides coverage for children from families that do not qualify for Medicaid.
Tutorial presented at the 2014 Drug Information Association (DIA) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, on June 26. 3-hour lecture focused on details of:
* Statutory Provisions
* The Regulations
* How CMS Is Construing Sunshine – Selected Q&A
The document discusses Accountablecare Service Organization (ASO), which aims to establish accountable care organizations (ACOs) under the new Medicare program rules. ASO provides a complete "ACO-in-a-Box" toolkit and services to help qualify as an ACO, including business planning, legal services, electronic medical records, cost-savings programs like clinical trials and generic prescriptions, marketing services, and wellness partner programs focused on preventative care and community involvement. The goal is for ACOs established with ASO's help to save up to $960 million in healthcare costs over three years while improving quality of care.
The document provides updates on various healthcare related topics including:
1) An OIG advisory opinion disapproving of proposed anesthesia arrangements with ASCs and approving a supermarket rewards program.
2) CMS announcing participants in the Independence at Home demonstration project and revising Medicare conditions of participation.
3) A large Medicare fraud takedown by the Strike Force involving over $452 million in fraudulent billing across seven cities.
PYA Principal J. Michael Keegan, MD, recently presented “Pacing Volume-to-Value Transition” and “The ROI of Avoiding Antibiotic Overuse” at the AlaHA Annual Meeting, June 8-11, 2016. The presentation focused on the importance of antibiotic stewardship programs (ASP) for population health. The presentation explained:
Why the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is proposing a requirement that hospitals implement ASPs to stem the rise of resistant bacteria.
Why PYA is invested in offering hospitals a proven program for improving patient safety while saving costs.
What constitutes a successful ASP.
Medicare 101: The A,B,C, and D\’s of MedicareMark Lane
A overview of the basic components of Medicare, how they work, and what financial exposure exists under Basic Medicare coverage. Highlights supplemental or alternative coverage options within the Medicare framework.
Global Transitional Care Investment Brief - 2015capservegroup
Global Transitional Healthcare is a transitional care provider that helps patients recover at home after being discharged from the hospital. Their services include coordinating care, managing medications, conducting home visits, and providing 24/7 access to nurses. They aim to reduce hospital readmissions by ensuring continuity of care during the critical 30-day period after discharge. The company has partnered with over 15 medical groups and facilities. They are raising $2.5 million to expand their services to more markets and respond to increasing demand and regulatory pressures to reduce readmissions.
This case study describes how a national multi-site healthcare provider was able to increase EBITDA by $3.38 million, free cash flow by $8 million, and exit value by $31.3 million through active management and minor tweaks to their benefits strategy over 5 years. This included aggregating multiple plans into a single plan, implementing new data and analytics tools, and ongoing minor changes to incentivize smart member decisions and remove unnecessary costs and waste while maintaining low employee premium increases and decreasing payroll contributions.
UHC Medicare made clear Educational presentationRamzan Magomedov
This document provides an overview of Medicare, including eligibility, coverage options, enrollment periods, and resources for additional information. It summarizes the main parts of Medicare (Part A for hospital insurance and Part B for medical insurance), options for getting coverage like Medicare Advantage plans or prescription drug plans, and ways to potentially save money on costs like using preventative services or finding supplemental plans. Contact information is provided for more details on Medicare and assistance programs.
The document discusses the medical home model as a disruptive innovation for primary care. It proposes paying primary care physicians for coordinating patient care and managing health outcomes and costs through a medical home model. This shifts care from a specialist-focused model to a simpler, rules-based primary care model. The medical home aims to provide integrated, whole-person care through teams led by primary care physicians. It also discusses pilots of medical homes, challenges, and the potential for cost savings through reduced errors, care gaps, and procedures.
PYA Principal Jim Lloyd along with Polsinelli’s Douglas Anning presented “Doing the Deal” in which they utilized case studies in analyzing both hospital-hospital transactions and hospital-physician practice transactions. The presentation also covered:
Helping clients successfully negotiate and structure the transaction and keeping the deal on track
Recognizing sample contract provisions common to these types of deals
Working with valuation firms to ensure the transaction terms are within fair market value and commercially reasonable
Evaluating and dealing with potential anti-trust concerns
Dealing with potential compliance issues identified during the due-diligence process
The document is a sales presentation for WellCare Medicare Advantage and prescription drug plans. It discusses:
- The agent's background and mission to provide information about WellCare plans
- An overview of Medicare options including Original Medicare, Medicare Advantage, and prescription drug plans
- Specific benefits of WellCare plans like low premiums, more predictable costs, and additional benefits like vision/dental
- How members can access services through WellCare's network and prescription drug coverage through its formulary
A health insurance roadmap takes a look at some simple solutions to the complex issues facing health insurance, medicare, medicaid, long term care insurance, and the high cost of health expenses in retirement.
This will work because so much of this is already in place and a lot of the rest would be quick and easy to implement. As in all areas, knowledge is power. Consumers can take control of your insurance portfolio by becoming educated about insurance. Better education and understanding will lead to positive results for consumers and for the insurance industry.
The document summarizes key aspects of Medicare and Medicaid programs in the United States. Medicare provides health coverage to elderly and disabled populations, while Medicaid covers low-income and poor populations. Both programs were established in 1965 and set minimum coverage standards, though Medicaid is jointly funded by federal and state governments. The document outlines eligibility criteria and coverage details for both programs and how they have evolved over time.
This document defines key terms related to HIPAA privacy and security regulations. It includes definitions for terms like protected health information, covered entity, business associate, consent, disclosure, health care operations, and individually identifiable health information. The document is intended to serve as a comprehensive glossary of HIPAA terminology. It also lists some common HIPAA acronyms and provides a website for a more extensive HIPAA glossary.
Running Head LEADERSHIP IN PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMS 1111.docxcowinhelen
Running Head: LEADERSHIP IN PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMS 1 1 1 1
LEADERSHIP IN PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMS 3
Leadership in public health programs
Name
Institution
Professor
Course
Date
Important leadership characteristics needed for public health promotion program
A doctor patient relationship is the basis of medical practice and thus of medical ethics. Therefore, several patients are in general not able or reluctant to make choices about their healthcare, therefore, patient autonomy is at times extremely challenging. Equally challenging are additional conditions of the relationship, for instances the doctor’s obligation to keep patient confidentiality in a time of computerized medical records and managed care, and the duty to maintain life in the face of petitions to hurry, and or speed up death. If patients feel the doctor’s kindheartedness, they will be others likely to belief the doctor to act in their best interests, and
This belief can be instrumental to the healing pathway (Pate, 1995). Having such individuals who may or may not forsake their right to value and equal care, or are doctors expected to formulate more, maybe even noble, attempts to develop and keep good relationships with them? Those specific patients, doctors should balance their liabilities for his or her-own safety and protection and the same for their employees with their responsibility to increase the safety of the patients. They ought to try to find methods to honor both responsibilities (Wright & Rowitz, 2000). If not possible, they must try to develop another plan for the treatment of the patients. Additional disputes to the standards of dignity and equal care for each patient evolves in the treatment of infectious patients. In this case, there should be very big cohesion relationship between the doctors and the potential patient within the hospitals and nursing homes.
Doctors and nurses as potential leaders in public health promotion program of choice
I have chosen doctors and the nurses as the potential leaders in y health program following the fact that a healthcare acquired infection (HAI) is one that a patient occurs while receiving treatment in a healthcare facility. In this promotion nursing care program, doctors in cooperation with the nurses will be the leaders of focus. The institution or the organization focused can be a hospital, nursing home, surgery center, dialysis clinic or free clinic. It is estimated that on average one in twenty hospitalized patients will contract and HAI. These infections are a major public health concern not only because they cost billions of dollars to treat, but because they can be contracted from routine care, surgical procedures, catheters or ventilators and from overusing antibiotics (Israel, Schulz, Parker, & Becker, 1998). With the increasing rise of drug-resistant bacteria finding antibiotics to treat bacterial infections are becoming harder to find. At least one antimicrobial drug is resistant to 70 perc ...
HMOs and PPOs in USA (Healthcare Management Functions)Abdu Naf'an
The document provides an overview of HMOs and PPOs in the US healthcare system. It defines HMOs as organizations that combine health insurance and healthcare delivery, requiring members to use providers in the HMO network. PPOs allow members to use out-of-network providers but with higher costs. The document then discusses key differences between the two models such as network size, cost structures, claims processes and more. It analyzes trends in HMOs and PPOs and concludes there is no single better option, as preferences depend on individual health needs and priorities around affordability versus flexibility of choice.
The document discusses transparency requirements for reporting payments and transfers of value from applicable manufacturers to covered recipients such as physicians. It provides an overview of the federal "Sunshine" provisions and state transparency laws. Key points include who must report, what must be reported, reporting deadlines, and preemption of similar state laws.
The U.S. health care system utilizes both privately funded and publicly funded payors. Over time, federal and state laws have influenced the development of different types of health plans. The government plays key roles in enacting laws to regulate and protect consumers, providing direct health care services, and acting as a payor through programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act.
WellPoint is working to address challenges in the US healthcare system related to affordability, access, quality care, and improved health. Regarding affordability, WellPoint is achieving administrative cost savings, helping contain healthcare costs, and providing consumers with information to help manage their own costs. For access, WellPoint is creating more affordable coverage options, finding ways to provide coverage to low-income Americans, and overcoming barriers like language and lack of local resources. Regarding quality care, WellPoint is collaborating with healthcare providers to improve clinical performance and establish evidence-based best practices. WellPoint also offers health improvement programs to help members manage chronic conditions and contribute to better health outcomes.
This document discusses pay for performance (P4P) and its implications for healthcare organizations. It explains that P4P aims to improve quality by directly incentivizing superior care delivery. The document outlines drivers of P4P like rising healthcare costs and quality issues. It also reviews current P4P programs and discusses strategies organizations can take to prepare, like integrating performance data and contracting approaches that reward quality and efficiency.
US healthcare insurance can be public (e.g. Medicare, Medicaid) or private (employer or self-purchased plans). Medicare has parts A, B, C, and D that cover different services like hospitals (Part A) and prescription drugs (Part D). Plans may require premiums, deductibles, co-payments, or co-insurance. They often have limits and do not cover all costs. Private insurers provide additional plans like PPOs, HMOs, or Medicare Advantage plans combining Part A, B, and D benefits. SCHIP provides coverage for children from families that do not qualify for Medicaid.
Tutorial presented at the 2014 Drug Information Association (DIA) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, on June 26. 3-hour lecture focused on details of:
* Statutory Provisions
* The Regulations
* How CMS Is Construing Sunshine – Selected Q&A
The document discusses Accountablecare Service Organization (ASO), which aims to establish accountable care organizations (ACOs) under the new Medicare program rules. ASO provides a complete "ACO-in-a-Box" toolkit and services to help qualify as an ACO, including business planning, legal services, electronic medical records, cost-savings programs like clinical trials and generic prescriptions, marketing services, and wellness partner programs focused on preventative care and community involvement. The goal is for ACOs established with ASO's help to save up to $960 million in healthcare costs over three years while improving quality of care.
The document provides updates on various healthcare related topics including:
1) An OIG advisory opinion disapproving of proposed anesthesia arrangements with ASCs and approving a supermarket rewards program.
2) CMS announcing participants in the Independence at Home demonstration project and revising Medicare conditions of participation.
3) A large Medicare fraud takedown by the Strike Force involving over $452 million in fraudulent billing across seven cities.
PYA Principal J. Michael Keegan, MD, recently presented “Pacing Volume-to-Value Transition” and “The ROI of Avoiding Antibiotic Overuse” at the AlaHA Annual Meeting, June 8-11, 2016. The presentation focused on the importance of antibiotic stewardship programs (ASP) for population health. The presentation explained:
Why the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is proposing a requirement that hospitals implement ASPs to stem the rise of resistant bacteria.
Why PYA is invested in offering hospitals a proven program for improving patient safety while saving costs.
What constitutes a successful ASP.
Medicare 101: The A,B,C, and D\’s of MedicareMark Lane
A overview of the basic components of Medicare, how they work, and what financial exposure exists under Basic Medicare coverage. Highlights supplemental or alternative coverage options within the Medicare framework.
Global Transitional Care Investment Brief - 2015capservegroup
Global Transitional Healthcare is a transitional care provider that helps patients recover at home after being discharged from the hospital. Their services include coordinating care, managing medications, conducting home visits, and providing 24/7 access to nurses. They aim to reduce hospital readmissions by ensuring continuity of care during the critical 30-day period after discharge. The company has partnered with over 15 medical groups and facilities. They are raising $2.5 million to expand their services to more markets and respond to increasing demand and regulatory pressures to reduce readmissions.
This case study describes how a national multi-site healthcare provider was able to increase EBITDA by $3.38 million, free cash flow by $8 million, and exit value by $31.3 million through active management and minor tweaks to their benefits strategy over 5 years. This included aggregating multiple plans into a single plan, implementing new data and analytics tools, and ongoing minor changes to incentivize smart member decisions and remove unnecessary costs and waste while maintaining low employee premium increases and decreasing payroll contributions.
UHC Medicare made clear Educational presentationRamzan Magomedov
This document provides an overview of Medicare, including eligibility, coverage options, enrollment periods, and resources for additional information. It summarizes the main parts of Medicare (Part A for hospital insurance and Part B for medical insurance), options for getting coverage like Medicare Advantage plans or prescription drug plans, and ways to potentially save money on costs like using preventative services or finding supplemental plans. Contact information is provided for more details on Medicare and assistance programs.
The document discusses the medical home model as a disruptive innovation for primary care. It proposes paying primary care physicians for coordinating patient care and managing health outcomes and costs through a medical home model. This shifts care from a specialist-focused model to a simpler, rules-based primary care model. The medical home aims to provide integrated, whole-person care through teams led by primary care physicians. It also discusses pilots of medical homes, challenges, and the potential for cost savings through reduced errors, care gaps, and procedures.
PYA Principal Jim Lloyd along with Polsinelli’s Douglas Anning presented “Doing the Deal” in which they utilized case studies in analyzing both hospital-hospital transactions and hospital-physician practice transactions. The presentation also covered:
Helping clients successfully negotiate and structure the transaction and keeping the deal on track
Recognizing sample contract provisions common to these types of deals
Working with valuation firms to ensure the transaction terms are within fair market value and commercially reasonable
Evaluating and dealing with potential anti-trust concerns
Dealing with potential compliance issues identified during the due-diligence process
The document is a sales presentation for WellCare Medicare Advantage and prescription drug plans. It discusses:
- The agent's background and mission to provide information about WellCare plans
- An overview of Medicare options including Original Medicare, Medicare Advantage, and prescription drug plans
- Specific benefits of WellCare plans like low premiums, more predictable costs, and additional benefits like vision/dental
- How members can access services through WellCare's network and prescription drug coverage through its formulary
A health insurance roadmap takes a look at some simple solutions to the complex issues facing health insurance, medicare, medicaid, long term care insurance, and the high cost of health expenses in retirement.
This will work because so much of this is already in place and a lot of the rest would be quick and easy to implement. As in all areas, knowledge is power. Consumers can take control of your insurance portfolio by becoming educated about insurance. Better education and understanding will lead to positive results for consumers and for the insurance industry.
The document summarizes key aspects of Medicare and Medicaid programs in the United States. Medicare provides health coverage to elderly and disabled populations, while Medicaid covers low-income and poor populations. Both programs were established in 1965 and set minimum coverage standards, though Medicaid is jointly funded by federal and state governments. The document outlines eligibility criteria and coverage details for both programs and how they have evolved over time.
This document defines key terms related to HIPAA privacy and security regulations. It includes definitions for terms like protected health information, covered entity, business associate, consent, disclosure, health care operations, and individually identifiable health information. The document is intended to serve as a comprehensive glossary of HIPAA terminology. It also lists some common HIPAA acronyms and provides a website for a more extensive HIPAA glossary.
Running Head LEADERSHIP IN PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMS 1111.docxcowinhelen
Running Head: LEADERSHIP IN PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMS 1 1 1 1
LEADERSHIP IN PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMS 3
Leadership in public health programs
Name
Institution
Professor
Course
Date
Important leadership characteristics needed for public health promotion program
A doctor patient relationship is the basis of medical practice and thus of medical ethics. Therefore, several patients are in general not able or reluctant to make choices about their healthcare, therefore, patient autonomy is at times extremely challenging. Equally challenging are additional conditions of the relationship, for instances the doctor’s obligation to keep patient confidentiality in a time of computerized medical records and managed care, and the duty to maintain life in the face of petitions to hurry, and or speed up death. If patients feel the doctor’s kindheartedness, they will be others likely to belief the doctor to act in their best interests, and
This belief can be instrumental to the healing pathway (Pate, 1995). Having such individuals who may or may not forsake their right to value and equal care, or are doctors expected to formulate more, maybe even noble, attempts to develop and keep good relationships with them? Those specific patients, doctors should balance their liabilities for his or her-own safety and protection and the same for their employees with their responsibility to increase the safety of the patients. They ought to try to find methods to honor both responsibilities (Wright & Rowitz, 2000). If not possible, they must try to develop another plan for the treatment of the patients. Additional disputes to the standards of dignity and equal care for each patient evolves in the treatment of infectious patients. In this case, there should be very big cohesion relationship between the doctors and the potential patient within the hospitals and nursing homes.
Doctors and nurses as potential leaders in public health promotion program of choice
I have chosen doctors and the nurses as the potential leaders in y health program following the fact that a healthcare acquired infection (HAI) is one that a patient occurs while receiving treatment in a healthcare facility. In this promotion nursing care program, doctors in cooperation with the nurses will be the leaders of focus. The institution or the organization focused can be a hospital, nursing home, surgery center, dialysis clinic or free clinic. It is estimated that on average one in twenty hospitalized patients will contract and HAI. These infections are a major public health concern not only because they cost billions of dollars to treat, but because they can be contracted from routine care, surgical procedures, catheters or ventilators and from overusing antibiotics (Israel, Schulz, Parker, & Becker, 1998). With the increasing rise of drug-resistant bacteria finding antibiotics to treat bacterial infections are becoming harder to find. At least one antimicrobial drug is resistant to 70 perc ...
Chapter 18 Private and Government Healthcare Systems PriMorganLudwig40
Chapter 18
Private and Government Healthcare Systems
Private and Government Healthcare Systems
In the United States, health insurance coverage is generally classified as either private (non-government) coverage or government-sponsored coverage.
Healthcare Coverage vs. Uninsured
The National Center for Health Statistics defines health insurance as public and private payers who cover medical expenditures incurred by a defined population in a variety of settings.
In the United States, the risk of becoming uninsured increases significantly for those earning low wages, the unemployed, and when employers are unable to provide insurance to workers.
Table 5-2 presents the trend of declining health insurance coverage.
Private Health Insurance
The concept of insurance is to combine the healthcare experiences of many enrollees in order to reduce expenses for any one individual to a manageable prepayment amount.
Employment-Based Plans is coverage offered through one’s own employment or a relative’s employment.
It may be offered by an employer or by a union.
Private Health Insurance Continued
Direct-Purchase/Fee-For-Service Plans are the traditional type of healthcare policy.
The physician sets a price for each type of service delivered, and then the client or insurance company pays the fee.
This type of health insurance provides the most choices of doctors and hospitals.
Private Health Insurance Continued
The two kinds of fee-for-service coverage are basic and major medical.
Basic covers some hospital services and supplies, such as X-rays and prescribed medicine.
Major medical insurance covers the cost of long-term, high-cost illnesses or injuries plus whatever basic did not cover.
Private Health Insurance Continued
Group Contract Insurance—to make hospitals and physicians products and services affordable to ordinary people in the United States.
With unmanaged care (fee-for-service) payments, healthcare providers could increase the number of single services they deliver in order to increase profit.
Private Health Insurance Continued
Managed Care—manages the cost and delivery of healthcare services, the quality of that healthcare, and access to care.
Managed care influences how much healthcare clients can use.
Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) are prepaid health plans.
The goal of an HMO is to provide affordable, well-organized healthcare by allowing clients to prepay (capitation payment) on a regular monthly basis for all services provided.
Private Health Insurance Continued
Including physicians’ visits, hospital stays emergency care, surgery, laboratory (lab) tests, X-rays, and therapy for all members and their families.
There may be a small co-payment for each office visit, such as $15 for a doctor’s visit or $50 for hospital emergency room treatment.
Private Health Insurance Continued
Point-of-Service Plans (POS) offer enrollees the option of receiving services from participating or nonparticipating prov ...
hapter 5What Are the Governmental AlternativesThe United StatJeanmarieColbert3
hapter 5
What Are the Governmental Alternatives?
The United States has tried an alphabet soup of health policy options: HSAs, HMOs, IPAs, PPOs, POS plans, ACOs, and so on. Health care analysts often must look beyond specific organizational and financial alternatives and address issues at a higher level and deal with the threads of economic and political thought behind different proposals while considering the overall criteria of access, cost, and quality of care.
Politicians and businesspeople from outside the health care sector advocate many alternatives. To offset their tendency to ignore professional issues, in this chapter we discuss alternatives affecting professional status and roles and institutional responses to them. Table 5-1 presents an array of federal alternatives organized by their primary criteria—access, quality, or cost—and then by the economic philosophies behind them. The items in this array are not intended to be either mutually exclusive or collectively exhaustive; rather, the table provides a framework for looking at both the broad policy picture and specific health care actions taken at various times and places. Later in the chapter, another table (Table 5-3) summarizes policy alternatives added by state and local governments. Many of these alternatives were included as provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). They are still included here, partly because they may be subject to reconsideration in the future.
Table 5-1 Illustrative Federal Government Health Policy Options
Access to Care
• Administered systems
• Universal coverage
• Expand or reduce eligibility or benefits
• Mandate coverage and services
• Captive providers
• Control insurance industry practices
• Mandate employer-based insurance coverage
• Consumer-driven competition
• Implement insurance exchanges
• Encourage basic plans with very low premiums for low-income workers and “young invincibles”
• Mandate individual coverage
• Allow states flexibility to reallocate federal funds for vouchers
• Oligopolistic competition
• Expand or contract coverages in entitlement and categorical programs
• Allow states to reallocate federal uncompensated care funds
• Eliminate ERISA constraints on the states
• Expand the capacity of the system
Quality of Care
• Administered system
• Mandate participation in quality improvement efforts in federal plans and programs
• Add more pay-for-performance incentives
• Select providers and programs on the basis of quality excellence
• Consumer-driven competition
• Encourage or mandate transparency of quality reporting in federal plans and programs
• Oversee licensure and credentialing of foreign-trained providers
• Oligopolistic competition
• Work reporting of quality care and adverse events into purchasing specifications for federal programs and disseminate to the public
• Encourage wider use of health information technology
Cost of Care
• Administered system
• Use full bargaining power in negotiation of ...
1) The document summarizes key aspects of national health reform and its potential impact and challenges for implementing it in Florida. It outlines opportunities to expand Medicaid coverage to over 1 million newly eligible residents, create health insurance exchanges, and reform insurance markets.
2) Implementing the reforms successfully could improve access to care, reduce costs, and lower uncompensated care while posing challenges like ensuring adequate provider capacity and developing new regulatory systems.
3) The report recommends Florida take steps like innovative outreach and enrollment for Medicaid and exchange programs, applying for federal grants, enacting legislation, and monitoring insurance affordability and quality.
MediMeals Investor Presentation - February 2017Cory Glazier
Clinical trials have proven irrevocably that heart disease and diabetes can be reversed through deliberate nutritional therapy with a shift to consuming a whole food, plant-based diet.
MediMeals is an evolutionary health service that makes it as easy for doctors to prescribe scientifically proven meal regimens as it has been to prescribe pharmaceuticals and surgery in the past.
We get nutritionally precise, delicious meals to our patients nationwide, on doctor's orders.
We have reduced the learning curve and time constraints to upgrading diet. Healing the body with food has never been as accessible.
The Future of Personalizing Care Management & the Patient ExperienceRaphael Louis Vitón
Actionable segmentation model findings - by Raphael Louis Vitón & Dream team of industry experts, physicians and leaders from Blue Cross, GEHealthCare, RingLeaderVentures, Maddock Douglas, Dr.Daniel Friedland, etc working on improving health outcomes by Personalizing the Care Management business model for Better Outcomes & Better Economics (through patient empowerment)
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Introduction
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Differences
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The governance of the International Hospital Federation is consisting of three organs i.e. the general assembly, governing council, and the executive committee. There are also the designated positions which consist of the president, chairman designate, immediate past president, treasurer, and the chief executive officer (International Hospital Federation, 2015). On the other hand, Kaiser Permanente is consisting of entities with each entity having its management and governance structure. There are regional entities and twelve Permanente Medical groups which were created by the Permanente Federation. The role of the Permanente is to standardized patient care as well as the performance (Finz, 2012). The governing of JCI is under the leadership of the President and the chief executive officer (Matt, 2011).
Advantages of the Entities
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Financial Statement Analysis
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The Essential Guide to Open Payments Compliance- Developed by Concur R-Squared Services Solutions Inc.
1. Developed by Concur &
R-Squared Services & Solutions, Inc.
THE ESSENTIAL
GUIDE TO OPEN
PAYMENTS COMPLIANCE
2. Open Payments Guide
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. What is Open Payments
3. Who Open Payments Affects
4. What to Report
5. Data Submission Specs
6. Important Dates To Know
7. Penalties for Non-Compliance
8. International Transparency Developments
9. Open Payments Compliance Solutions
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Introduction
To quote Justice Brandeis, “Sunshine is the best disinfectant.”
Originally proposed by former Senator Kohl and Senator Grassley, Open
Payments, formally known as The Physicians Payment Sunshine Act,
was made to help add visibility and transparency of spend between
manufacturers and healthcare providers of drugs, devices or medical supplies.
This guide helps simplify what this new legislation means to the medical
manufacturing community and provide easy ways to make sure you are
in compliance with Open Payments, a.k.a. The Sunshine Act. By adding
transparency, Open Payments cleans up the cloudy, complicated healthcare
system by shining the light on how and where money and other transactions
of value happen — thus, adding greater accountability to all involved.
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“I believe transparency
in the healthcare
system leads to greater
accountability”
Senator Grassley
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What Is Open Payments
Open Payments is the name of the federal disclosure program administered
by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to implement the
section of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act commonly known
as “The Physician Payments Sunshine Law” or the “Sunshine Act.” The
law establishes a national disclosure program to promote transparency
by publishing the financial relationships between the medical industry
and healthcare providers (physicians and teaching hospitals) on a publicly
accessible website developed by CMS.
By adding visibility to spend, Open Payments aids government enforcement
and will:
• Encourage transparency of reporting financial ties
• Reveal the nature and extent of relationships
• Prevent inappropriate influence on research, education, and clinical
decision-making
• Avoid conflicts of interest that can compromise clinical integrity and
patient care
• Minimize risk of increased health care costs
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Who Open Payments Affects
Does Open Payments, formally known as the Sunshine Act, pertain to you?
Open Payments requires “Applicable Manufacturers” to disclose annually to
CMS any payments or other transfers of value provided to, or at the request
of, or on behalf of a “Covered Recipient”.
Applicable Manufacturer – An entity that is operating in the United
States and that falls within one of the following categories:
• A company that produces, prepares, reproduces or compounds
pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biological or medical supplies
• A company under common ownership such as a charity, non-profit
organization or voluntary association; providing assistance or
support, marketing, promotion, sale or distribution on behalf of such a
manufacturer as listed above
This term is defined broadly to include (i) any entity which is engaged in
the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, or conversion of a
covered drug, device, biological, or medical supply, but not if such covered
product supply is solely for use by or within the entity itself or by the entity’s
own patients (i.e., doesn’t include hospitals, pharmacies, or labs); or (ii) any
entity under common ownership with such entity which provides assistance
or support to such entity with respect to the production, preparation,
propagation, compounding, conversion, marketing, promotion, sale, or
distribution of a covered product.
(Under the law, common ownership means the same individual, individuals,
entity, or entities directly or indirectly own 5 percent or more total ownership
of two entities. This includes, but is not limited to, parent corporations,
direct and indirect subsidiaries, and brother or sister corporations. Where
as assistance and/or support is defined as providing a service or services
that are necessary or integral to the production, preparation, propagation,
compounding, conversion, marketing, promotion, sale, or distribution of a
covered drug, device, biological or medical supply.)
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COVERED DRUG, DEVICE, BIOLOGICAL, OR MEDICAL SUPPLY
Any drug, device, biological, or medical supply for which payment is available
under Medicare, Medicaid or a state children’s health insurance program
either separately (such as through a fee schedule or formulary) or as part of
a bundled payment (for example, under the hospital inpatient prospective
payment system or the hospital outpatient prospective payment system) and
which is of the type that in the case of a:
• Drug or biological, by law, requires a prescription to be dispensed; or
• Device (including a medical supply that is a device), by law, requires
premarket approval by or premarket notification to the FDA.
Under Open Payments, a “Covered Recipient” is a current licensed physician
or a teaching hospital that receives Medicare graduate medical education
(GME) payments (CMS will annually publish a list of hospitals that meet the
definition of a teaching hospital).
The law also requires non-public manufacturers, as well as pharmaceutical
and device supplier group purchasing organizations (GPOs), to annually
disclose ownership interest physicians or their immediate family members
have in those entities.
Not included as a “Covered Recipient” are nurse practitioners, pharmacists,
medical residents and office staff.
FOLLOW THESE 4 STEPS TO DETERMINE IF OPEN PAYMENTS,
FORMALLY THE SUNSHINE ACT, APPLIES TO YOUR
ORGANIZATION
Step 1: Does the organization operate in the United States (includes any
territory, possession or commonwealth of the United States)?
Step 2: Does the organization do any of the following types of activities?
• Type 1: Engages in the production, preparation, propagation,
compounding or conversion of a covered drug, device, biological or
medical supply.
• Type 2: Under “common ownership” (ownership by the same individuals
or entities of 5 percent or more in two entities) with Type 1 AND provides
assistance or support with such entity with respect to the production,
preparation, propagation, compounding, conversion, marketing, promotion,
sale or distribution of a covered drug, device, biological or medical supply.
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Step 3: Are any of the organization’s products covered by insurance, such
as Medicare, Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program? If so, does
the drug or biological require a doctor’s prescription? Or, if they are medical
devices and supplies, do they require premarket approval or notification by
the FDA?
Step 4: If the answer is yes to the above, then your organization is
considered to be an applicable manufacturer for Open Payments.
FIGURE 1.1: DETERMINING IF AN ENTITY IS AN APPLICABLE MANUFACTURER
Operate in the United States Physical location within the United States or conducts activities within the United
States (included any territory, posession or commonwealth of the United States)
Activities Engages in the production,
preparation, propagation,
compounding or conversion
of a covered drug, device,
biological or medical supply
Includes distributors or
wholesalers that hold title to a
covered drug, device, biological
or medical supply.
Under common ownership with a Type 1
applicable manufacturers
AND
Provides assistance or support to such entity
with respect to the production, preparation,
propagation, compounding, conversion,
marketing, promotion, sale, or distribution of a
covered drug, device, biological or medical supply.
Covered products Reimbursed by Medicare, Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program
AND
For drugs and biologicals, requires a prescription (or doctor’s authorization) to administer
OR
For devices and medical supplies, requires premarket approval or premarket notification
by the FDA
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LET’S DIG DEEPER INTO COVERED RECIPIENTS
Knowing when to report payments or other transfers of value all depends on
who receives or directs the payment or transfer of value (TOV).
The term “Covered Recipient” is defined as any currently licensed physician,
except for a physician who is a bona fide employee of the applicable
manufacturer that is reporting the payment; or a teaching hospital, which is
any institution that received a payment under a graduate medical education
funding from CMS during the last calendar year for which such information
is available.
A physician need only possess a current license to practice; it does not
matter whether he or she is enrolled in the Medicare program or actively
practices medicine.
The term “physician” includes the following professions, as defined in the
Social Security Act:
• Medical Doctor (MD)
• Doctor of Osteopathy (DO)
• Doctor of Dentistry (DDM)
• Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS)
• Doctor of Podiatry (DPM)
• Doctor of Optometry (OD)
• Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine (DC)
Payments or other transfers of value do not need to be reported when made
to residents (including residents in medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, podiatry,
optometry and chiropractic), nurses or office staff.
Physicians or teaching hospitals are not required to register with, send any
information to, or otherwise participate with Open Payments, but in order
to view and/or dispute information that will be published, they must register
with the Open Payments system using a CMS secure website.
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What To Report
GENERAL PAYMENTS
It can be hard to know what is and is not a transfer of value (TOV) in the eyes
of CMS. Remember, transfers of value can include all payments or other
transfers of value given to a Covered Recipient, regardless of whether the
Covered Recipient specifically requested them.
Examples of payments or other transfers of value, which must be reported:
• Consulting fees
• Gifts
• Entertainment
• Food
• Travel and lodging
• Educational grants
• Research payments and expenses
• Charitable contributions
• Royalty or license fees
Be aware that indirect payments (TOV made through a third party) also need
to be reported when the manufacturer requires, directs or otherwise causes
them to be provided and knows or becomes aware of the identity of the
Covered Recipient on or before June 30th of the following reporting year.
Examples of indirect payments:
• Manufacturer provides payment to medical professional society that is
earmarked for grants to physicians.
• Manufacturer pays a meeting planning company that in turn pays a fee-
for-service to a physician.
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WHAT IS EXCLUDED
Applicable Manufacturers are not required to report the following payments
and other transfers of value because they are expressly excluded in Open
Payments, also known as the Sunshine Act:
• Transfers of value less than $10, unless the aggregate amount transferred
to, requested by, or designated on behalf of the Covered Recipient
exceeds $100 in a calendar year;
• Payments or other transfers of value of less than $10 provided at large-
scale conferences and similar large-scale events, as well as events open
to the public where it is difficult to determine the identity of the recipient
(even if the aggregate total for a covered recipient exceeds the $100
aggregate threshold for the calendar year);
• Product samples (including coupons and vouchers) not intended to be
sold and are for patient use;
• Educational materials that directly benefit patients or are intended for
patient use;
• The loan of a covered device for a short-term trial period, not to exceed 90
days, to permit evaluation of the covered device by the Covered Recipient;
• Items or services provided under a contractual warranty, including the
replacement of a covered device, where the terms of the warranty are set
forth in the purchase or lease agreement for the covered device;
• A transfer of anything of value to a Covered Recipient when the Covered
Recipient is a patient and not acting in the professional capacity of a
Covered Recipient;
• Discounts, including rebates;
• In-kind items used for the provision of charity care;
• A dividend or other profit distribution from, or ownership or investment
interest in, a publicly traded security or mutual fund;
• In the case of an Applicable Manufacturer who offers a self-insured plan,
payments for the provision of health care to employee under the plan;
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• In the case of a Covered Recipient who is a licensed non-medical
professional, a transfer of anything of value to the Covered Recipient if
the transfer is payment solely for the non-medical professional services
of the licensed non-medical professional;
• A payment or transfer of value to a covered recipient if the payment
or transfer of value is made solely in the context of a personal, non-
business-related relationship;
• In the case of a Covered Recipient who is a physician, a transfer of
anything of value to the Covered Recipient if the transfer is payment
solely for the services of the Covered Recipient with respect to a civil or
criminal action or administrative proceedings; and
• Transfers of value made indirectly to a Covered Recipient through a
third party in cases when the Applicable Manufacturer is unaware of the
identity of the Covered Recipient.
“With Concur’s convenient web-based services and integrated access to
healthcare databases, we were able to streamline our data collection efforts into
a single, automated system that will help ensure we have accurately captured
and reported all information required for compliance with the Sunshine Act.”
Sarah Tulk, CPA, MBA, Corporate Controller — AlloSource
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3 Separate Data Submission
File Specs, Established by CMS
One is for the submission of General Payments, the second for the
submission of research-related TOVs, and the third for ownership and
investment interests.
1. The General Payments report, which includes travel and meal-related
expenses, contains the following metadata elements:
• Submission File (Header) Data Elements – this includes the name and
Registration ID for the manufacturer, and file related identifiers;
• Recipient Demographic Information — there are twenty specific
elements in this section to cover names, addresses, types, specialties,
and identifiers for the Covered Recipient;
• Associated Drug, Device, Biological or Medical Supply — this category
identifies the drug, device, biological or medical supply that is related to
the payments or other transfers of value and contains four data elements,
inducing product type indicator, name or category, and for drugs/
biologicals, the NDC(s) for the product;
• Payment or Transfer of Value Information – these eleven data elements
specific the name and ID of the payer, transaction ID, the amount, date,
number of payments, nature, form, and location for travel and lodging; and
• General Record Information – this catchall category captures information
such as whether the recipient also is an owner/investor, whether a directed
payment was involved (including the identity receiving the TOV), delay
publication flag (for research-related TOVs), and contextual information.
2. Research Payments
CMS defines research as “a systematic investigation designed to develop
or contribute to generalizable knowledge relating broadly to public health,
including behavioral and social-sciences research. This term encompasses
basic and applied research and product development.” This includes pre-
clinical research and FDA Phases I-IV research, in addition to investigator-
initiated investigations.
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If a payment falls within the nature of payment category for research, it only
needs to be subject to a written agreement or contract or a research protocol.
This may include an unbroken chain of agreements (instead of a single
agreement between the Applicable Manufacturer and the Covered Recipient)
which link the Applicable Manufacturer with the Covered Recipient, such as
when the Applicable Manufacturer uses a contract research organization
(CRO) who contracts with the Covered Recipient.
Reporting on Research Payments
Applicable manufacturers must report research payments separately in
a different template (i.e., “research template”) since CMS is requiring the
reporting of modified information and recognizes that research payments are
typically larger payments, which are more difficult to itemize. For detailed
instruction on Research Payments reporting, refer to the CMS website on
Open Payments.
3. Reportable Ownership and Investment Interest
In addition to reporting payments and other transfers of value to Covered
Recipients, Applicable Manufacturers (and GPOs) must report certain
information concerning ownership or investment interest held by a physician
or their immediate family members in the Applicable Manufacturers (or GPOs),
and payments or other transfers value to such physician owners or investors
during the preceding year. An ownership or investment interest may be direct
or indirect and through debt, equity or other means.
CMS Defined Ownership or Investment Interest:
1. Stock, stock option(s) (other than those received as compensation, until
exercised)
2. Partnership share(s)
3. Limited liability company membership(s)
4. Loans, bonds, or other financial instruments secured with an entity’s
property or revenue or a portion of that property or revenue
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Important Dates To Know
• August 1, 2013 — Applicable Manufacturers and GPOs were to begin
collecting financial relationship data
• March 31, 2014 — Reports due to CMS of spend from August 1, 2013
through December 31, 2013
• 90th day of each calendar year — Beginning in 2015, reports for the prior
calendar year are due
• September 30, 2014 — CMS will release the first set of data publicly
• June 30, 2015 and beyond — Release of data by CMS
Concerned about getting everything right the first time? Don’t worry. You
have 45 days to review everything and make any edits before the data
is publically available. Plus, if any disputes come up, CMS provides an
additional 15 days to make any final corrections.
CMS will notify Covered Recipients about the opportunity to review
payments reported by Applicable Manufacturers using e-mail list serves and
online postings, including the CMS website and the Federal Register.
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Penalties for non-compliance
TIME DELAYS
Open Payments, a.k.a. the Sunshine Act, imposes what is essentially “strict
liability” for Applicable Manufacturers that fail to report the necessary
information on a timely basis. Specifically, any Applicable Manufacturer that
fails to submit the information in a timely manner in accordance with rules
or regulations declared in Open Payments shall be subject to a civil money
penalty (CMP) of not less than $1,000, but not more than $10,000, for each
payment or other transfer of value (or ownership or investment interest) not
reported as required. The total amount of civil money penalties imposed with
respect to each annual submission by an Applicable Manufacturer shall not
exceed $150,000, an amount that can be reached with a mere 15 errors.
Avoid Penalties: With Concur’s real-time automated fetching of all
attendee and HCP data – the potential for errors with manually reporting is
substantially lessened. Concur’s web services collect the data needed from
designated lists of Healthcare Providers – including Medical ID Numbers and
attaches this data to each record in real-time. Some legal requirements are
automatically taken care of for you.
FAILURE TO SUBMIT
Any Applicable Manufacturer that knowingly fails to submit the information,
however, in a timely manner in accordance with rules or regulations
described in Open Payments shall be subject to a civil money penalty of
not less than $10,000, but not more than $100,000, for each payment or
other transfer of value (or ownership or investment interest) not reported as
required. For this type of “knowing” failure, the total amount of civil money
penalties imposed with respect to each annual submission by an Applicable
Manufacturer shall not exceed $1,000,000.
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International Transparency
Developments
Although the United States may have been one of the first to require
disclosure of TOVs, many other countries are following suit. The chart below
summarizes some of the transparency initiatives worldwide.
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Authority
Law, Reg, or
Industry Code?
Responsibilities
Products
Covered
Penalties?
ABPI
(UK Pharmaceutical Association)
Industry Code Speaker, Mkt research, Consultant,
Ad Board fee reporting, meeting
sponsorships
All pharmaceuticals Self-regulation
France
(Law enacted 12/29/11)
Law Sunshine-like reporting obligations
and reporting of agreements
Pharmaceuticals
and medical devices
45,000€ for
knowing violations
CGR/Netfarma
(Dutch Pharmaceutical Association)
Industry Code Sunshine-like reporting related to
non-clinical activities
All pharmaceuticals Self-regulation
JPMA
(Japan Pharmaceutical Association)
Industry Code Sunshine-like reporting All pharmaceuticals
(med devices
expected)
Self-regulation
MAA
(Australia Pharmaceutical Association)
Industry Code Educational Events reporting Prescription
pharmaceuticals
Self-regulation
Portugal
(Medicinal Products Act)
Law Requires both pharmaceutical
manufacturers and HCPs to report
transfers of value
All pharmaceuticals Up to € 44.891,81 plus
additional sanctions
Slovakia
(Act 362/2011)
Law Sunshine-like reporting All pharmaceuticals Administrative
offense
EFPIA
(European Pharmaceutical Association)
Industry Code Sunshine-like reporting All pharmaceuticals Self-regulation
Denmark
(ENLI)
Industry Code Disclosure of events, sponsorships,
printed promotional materials and
exhibitions at congresses
All pharmaceuticals Self-regulation
Ireland
(Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare
Association)
Industry Code Disclosure of financial support to
patient organizations
Patient associations Self-regulation
Hungary
(Hungarian National Code)
Industry Code Disclosure of financial support to
patient organizations
Patient associations Self-regulation
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Open Payments
Compliance Solutions
To understand the compliance solution appropriate for your organization,
one must first adequately define the problem. In the aggregate spend
context, the organization must capture a lot of data for each transfer of value
(TOV), which occur throughout the organization. TOVs must be processed
in conformity with differing legal requirements, and ultimately reported in
the specific format required by the jurisdiction. For example, the CMS Open
Payments requirements differ from those required by Massachusetts, which
differ from those required in France and so-on.
An effective aggregate spend Compliance Solution:
• Promotes consistent, accurate, and complete data capture
• Validates key information such as identity of recipient
• Contains well-researched and up-to-date rule sets and report formats
• Allows for quick and easy audit, review, and correction, as appropriate, of
every reported spend item (so as to address HCP disputes)
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First, your organization will need to catalog all of the TOVs that occur,
identifying who makes them, why, and where is the data about the TOV
captured and stored, if at all. You’ll need to assess ease and completeness
of the required capture; quality and accuracy of the data, especially
the data that identifies the physician or other recipient of the TOV, data
exportability (into a reporting tool), and then, use unique system and
transaction identifiers. With all of this information, you can set out a plan to
address policy, process, data, personnel and system gaps. As it relates to
the latter, the more information about the HCP that can be presented at the
front-end source system (i.e., to allow users to select HCPs from the NPI or
other data list as with the Concur automated solution) mitigates the need for
complicated matching and validation on the back-end.
Once you are confident that you have identified all of the situations, people,
systems and data relevant to spend capture and reporting, the next step
is to bring all of the data together in a consistent manner so as to permit
the processing of the data using rules designed to produce the reports
consistent with the law. The application of the reporting rules against the
spend data will yield a raw report, which then needs to be formatted and
presented consistent with government requirements.
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Become Open Payments
compliant with Concur
and R-Squared
With so much at stake, it is more important than ever to adopt an automated
and flexible system that streamlines the expense reporting process – driving
down costs and saving time. Trying to manually collect, calculate and report on
all business expenditures, especially when using a manual spreadsheet, can
be extremely time consuming and can result in potential errors in reporting.
With Concur’s versatile and complete cloud-based solution, each physician
attendee is uniquely identified through a standardized/consolidated Health
Care Providers (HCP) list. Automated access to such a list eliminates not
only time, but also the challenges involved in aggregate spend. Concur’s
automated travel and expense reporting tracks spend per attendee, reports
costs and provides a comprehensive report per physician at the end of each
year — all helping with Open Payments compliance.
CONCUR PROVIDES:
• Data for Effective Management: Access to the right information, in a
timely and easily understandable format to help you make informed
decisions on how to save money in key areas while ensuring compliance
and identifying non-compliance.
• Real-Time Reports: Provide real-time visibility into compliance and
expense reporting through automation, ensuring reports are on schedule
and on budget. Real-time visibility in the form of complete data for
analysis and reporting allows you to make the timely decisions that better
control costs.
• Flexible Reporting: Stay efficient and keep ahead of a changing
regulatory landscape with customized data satisfying internal, state, and
federal requirements.
• On the Go Access: Make your smartphone even smarter — and life a little
easier with Concur’s mobile apps.
“With Concur, there’s
no option for error.
Healthcare Professionals
and attendee names,
addresses, license
numbers and associated
details are accessible
in the solution, along
with our categories of
spend and spending
limits. Everything’s been
integrated into Concur
Travel & Expense.
That’s a big plus for our
employees. Tracking
attendee data—quickly
and easily—is just a
routine part of expense
reporting for us now.”
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R-SQUARED PROVIDES:
The full array of services and solutions to comply with Open Payments, state
and international disclosure laws. From “Spend Discovery,” identification of all
of the TOVs and related data, systems, and personnel; to the implementation
of SpendTracker®, an end-to-end aggregate spend solution with
sophisticated real-time Concur integration, R-Squared is the trusted expert in
Transparency Disclosure Compliance. R-Squared additionally provides:
• Concur Transparency Report Connector: Generate CMS Open
Payments and state reports using a Concur connector that transfers
information to R-Squared’s technology for creation of state and federal
reports consistent with legal requirements.
• Concur NPI Attendee Fetch Connector: Search and select HCP
attendees from an up-to-date copy of the NPI database to ensure correct
and accurate identification of the HCP attendees.
• SpendTracker® with Concur Connector: Includes all of the functionality
included in the Report and NPI Attendee Fetch Connector as well as the
ability to add HCP affiliates and other key attendees simultaneously to
the expense and CiR2
us customer master. The solution is kept up-to-date
with the evolving transparency requirements by the experts at R-Squared
maintaining the rules and reports on a continual basis.
Don’t waste any more valuable time documenting expenses or worrying
about Open Payments compliance. Automated solutions like Concur and
R-Squared empower you with increased efficiency—so you can focus on
driving revenue while educating doctors on the benefits of your solution.
Find out more about Concur’s Healthcare solutions with our Life Sciences
and technology partners at:
https://www.concur.com/en-us/pharmaceutical-sunshine-act-compliance