16: The sunshine act: Shedding light on the inaccuracy of financial disclosures

Shedding Some Light on the Sunshine Act.

I read with interest Mr. Aicher’s editorial in the Aesthetic Surgery Journal, and wanted to echo and share some of my thoughts and concerns on this new government mandate. Approximately 2 years ago the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) was tasked by the federal government to oversee and report all payments made to health care providers, owing to concerns that payments from the phar...

Shining light on the Sunshine Act.

INTRODUCTION Section 6002 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as the Sunshine Act, requires that manufacturers report payments or other transfers of value made to physicians and teaching hospitals [1,2]. The tracking of such payments goes into effect on August 1, 2013, and the new rules could affect radiologists. In this column, I pose and answer several questions rega...

Shining a light on the Sunshine Act.

Shedding light on what the Sunshine Act will mean for physicians.

the effect of using visual aids on the development of speech act of disagreement among iranian intermediate efl learners

abstract the present study tried to investigate the effect of visual aids (films) on the development of the speech act of disagreement among iranian efl intermediate learners. to this end, the researcher selected 40 homogeneous intermediate learners based on their scores on oxford placement test. .the subjects then divided into control group and experimental group. both classes were tested by ...