Weeds here, to maintain a practicing license has to get a certain amount of continuing medical education every year. And whats happened over the past decade and a half is more and more of that continuing medical education has been funded by the Drug Companies or the companies that make certain products. And the challenge is as the questioner pointed out, the funding passes through and its technically an unrestricted grant and there are various fire walls in place. Everybody who has looked at this from the Senate Investigations to the institute of medicine to the american medical colleges report have all expressed deep concern about the potential of cme funding to influence prescribing. But its been a tricky issue of how do you capture it. What cme has come down on it is if a Company Finds out within the year that their funds were used to went to a particular doctor then thats a reportable payment and thats consistent with how other indirect payments through an intermediary are treated
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Qualcomm product marketing manager Matthew Grossman tells Decrypt's Kate Irwin why mobile esports is exploding in popularity around the world and dispels some…
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The opioid crisis in Tucson has lasting impacts across all communities, not the least of which being the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at St. Joseph’s Hospital. The number of infants seeing the effects of this epidemic continues to increase, and health professionals are trying to find new solutions.