Darryl Williams's blog
One Goal. Two Paths. The Drive to Aggregate Spend Land.
Accuracy and completeness are the ultimate objectives of transparency reporting and the primary dimensions by which data quality is measured in the aggregate spend arena. With unlimited resources and unlimited time, this objective could easily be attained by most organizations; but in the transparency reporting game, the limiting factor is time.
Pause – CMS Spend Transparency Reporting Proposed Rule Published
Just when you thought it might all be a bad dream, the Physician Payments Sunshine Provisions proposed rule emerges.
Physician Payments Sunshine Act data collection takes effect January 1, 2012. Are you prepared?
While no one is surprised that HHS missed its October 1, 2011 deadline for publishing reporting guidelines to the healthcare industry for Physician Payments Sunshine Act reporting, the bottom line is a lack of performance on CMS’s part to provide direction to the industry should not be (and likely will not be) considered an excuse for a lack of preparedness for data collection by covered reporting entities (U.S. drug, medical device, biological or medical supply manufacturers).
