CME Coalition: Most Commenters Back Sunshine Law's CME Exclusion

The CME Coalition, which opposes CMS' proposal to do away with the continuing medical education exclusion as part of the Open Payments Act, says the overwhelming majority of comments to the agency ask the agency to keep or expand the exemption. The CME Coalition says it went over the more than 800 comments submitted on CMS' proposal in the 2015 Physician Fee Schedule and found that 820 -- or 98 percent -- of the comments support keeping the exclusion or...