CME Coalition Advises Rewriting Sunshine Exemption, Instead Of Axing It

The CME Coalition is proposing that, rather than scrap the exclusion for continuing medical education funding on the Open Payments website, CMS should rewrite the exemption to include all CME accrediting organizations. The coalition, which helped get CME funding excluded from being reporting, says tossing the exclusion would cost CME providers nearly $200 million over three years. "(T)he Coalition's analysis of the proposed rule's actual language suggests that rather than expanding the exemption beyond the originally designated 'five accrediting bodies,'...