CME Coalition: Axing Sunshine Exclusion Has Wide-Ranging Consequences

July 30, 2014 at 5:20 PM
The CME Coalition is worried that CMS' plan to drop the continuing medical education exclusion from the Sunshine Act will have a negative impact on both speakers and attendees at CME events, despite CMS' assurances that doing away with the CME exclusion will not require reporting of indirect payments from drug and device manufacturers to CME lectures and conferences. “Although CMS has suggested that its sole intent is to expand the range of educational events where the value of the...


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