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On November 13, 2014, CMS published the 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule ("MPFS") finalizing the following changes to the Sunshine Open Payments regulations. The MPFS:
- Deleted the provision exempting certain payments to CME providers from the reporting requirements;
- Added three new forms of payment designations;
- Made the reporting of the marketed name of a covered device no longer optional; and
- Deleted the definition of covered device.
These changes will be effective January 1, 2016, with reports to CMS in 2017.
(A summary of the final Open Payment regulations can be accessed ...
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