In this week’s Featured Podcast (number 5) we talk with Alan Reider of Arnold & Porter LLP about the Federal Physician Payment Sunshine Act (PPSA). Mr. Reider specializes in healthcare, regulatory, and compliance law and he walks us through a significant piece of legislation regarding the new transparency required in the relationships between physicians and pharmaceutical and medical device companies.

Although this legislation is primarily aimed at keeping these companies in check, there have been several high-profile cases involving medical practices who were receiving substantial remuneration in return for using certain drugs or medical devices.

It would behoove each practice to be aware of the basics of the PPSA and to ensure that all of the physicians are in compliance.

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Washington Update - Latest Healthcare & Regulatory Law from Alan Reider of Arnold & Porter LLP

This Issue:

• The Federal Physician Payment Sunshine Act
• Feds and States cracking down on improper relationships between physicians and drug companies
• What medical practices should be aware of
• Can accepting a pen from a rep get you in legal hot water?

Podcast: Download (Duration: 9:42 — 1.7MB)

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Book Review by Jose Gaudier, MD

At a time that I was getting myself organized to review the topic of genetics and get more acquainted with some of the new information, this book suddenly appeared. It is a simple but fairly comprehensive book on one of the most amazing discoveries of the last 150 years.

The history of life, DNA and the mapping of our genome is related through 23 chapters. Each chapter presents a story corresponding to each of the 23 pairs of human chromosomes.

We know that each chromosome has thousands of genes and a comprehensive review of all the available data would lead to an encyclopedia-sized book too boring to read. Instead the author selects one important aspect of each chromosome to present.  Examples include the importance of genes to life, fate, memory, sex, evolution, instincts, and many other aspects  of nature.

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