CMS Axed Sunshine CME Exclusion, But Most Payments Still Won't Be Reported

Even though CMS recently scrapped a provision that had exempted continuing medical education (CME) payments from the Open Payments Program (Sunshine Law), many CME payments still won't have to be reported thanks to a clarification the agency tucked into the final 2015 physician payment rule. The rule clarifies that if manufacturers and GPOs who give funding for CME events don't have any say over the speakers and presenters or how the events use the money then the payments don't have...