Coalition Leaders Highlight Agency/Publisher Challenges To Ensure Accuracy and Understanding of Sunshine Reports

June 19, 2013 – The pharmaceutical industry needs to put strategies in place now to help them overcome the significant ... read more

Update: Supreme Court Decision Ends Presumption in Favor of “Pay for Delay” Agreements

June 17, 2013 – In a 5-3 decision announced today, the U.S. Supreme Court ended the legal presumption that “pay for ... read more

Sunshine Act Data Could Increase FDA’s Ability to Prosecute Marketing Violations

June 14, 2013 – The data collected under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act will be part of a database that ... read more

Coalition’s Kamp, Angel To Speak at June 18 Sunshine Act Webinar

June 4, 2013 – John Kamp, Coalition for Healthcare Communication Executive Director, and Jack Angel, Executive Director of the Coalition’s ... read more

Senate Tax Reform Options Include Denying DTC Deductions

June 3, 2013 – As predicted, tax deductions for the cost of direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising for prescription drugs are among ... read more

DTC Study Does Not Claim DTC Ads Cause Doctors to Prescribe Inappropriately

May 23, 2013 – A study of the effect of direct-to-consumer advertising for statin drugs on physician prescribing that recently was ... read more

The Atlantic: Finding the Right Industry-Physician Relationship Advances Medicine

May 20, 2013 – Although relationships between the pharmaceutical industry and physicians have come under greater scrutiny as the implementation ... read more

WLF to CMS: Deem Medical Textbooks Educational Materials or Face Potential First Amendment Challenge

May 16, 2013 – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is likely “to find itself the target of ... read more

Kamp in MMM: Off-label Is on the Table

May 14, 2013 — In a Medical Marketing and Media (MMM) column posted May 1, Coalition for Healthcare Communication Executive ... read more

Many Physicians Are Both Unaware and Wary of Sunshine Act Requirements, Survey Says

May 6, 2013 — With Sunshine Act reporting slated to begin in less than three months, it is sobering to ... read more

Coalition: Educational Materials Should Be Excluded from Sunshine Reporting

April 22, 2013 – In April 18 comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) the Coalition for ... read more

Kamp Commentary: Supreme Court Decision Could End “Pay for Delay”

April 1, 2013 – By John Kamp, Executive Director, Coalition for Healthcare Communication While not directly about communication and marketing, ... read more

Promotion Down, But Prospects Up for New Drugs

March 22, 2013 – Although spending on drug promotion has declined in recent years, 2013 could be a pivotal year ... read more

“Cyberspace Is Not Without Boundaries,” FTC States in Digital Advertising Guidelines

March 19, 2013 – Although the FDA has not yet issued its long-awaited social media guidance for the biopharma industry, ... read more

Study Cites Benefits of Pharma’s Promotional Efforts

March 4, 2013 – A recent study released by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) states that although consumer-directed ... read more

CMS Launches "OpenPayments" Site as Part of Sunshine Implementation

Feb. 25, 2013 – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) launched its “OPENPAYMENTS” Website last week, which will be ... read more

Sunshine Act Final Rule: Coalition for Healthcare Communication Summary

On Feb. 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule implementing the Sunshine Act provisions ... read more

Sunshine Act Final Rule Resets Clock on Annual Reporting of Payments to Physicians

Many Questions Still Unresolved Feb. 4, 2013 – Although the final rule to implement the Sunshine provisions of the Affordable ... read more

Coalition’s Policy Update: Keep Fiscal Challenges, Privacy Regulation on Radar

Jan. 15, 2013 – If 2012 – with its high number of new drug approvals, senior staff stability within the ... read more

OPDP Untitled Letters on PR Materials Surprise Industry

Nov. 27, 2012 – An Oct. 31 enforcement letter from the FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) to Cornerstone ... read more

DAA’s Self-regulatory Ad Program to Protect Consumers Online Is Praised by White House, DOC and FTC

Feb. 23, 2012 – At a White House meeting held today to unveil the blueprint for the Obama Administration’s “Consumer ... read more

Sorrell v. IMS: What Marketing Professionals Need to Know

By John Kamp, Executive Director, Coalition for Healthcare Communication July 18, 2011 — For those who have not read the ... read more

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