Response to “Shedding Some Light on the Sunshine Act”

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.

Shedding some light on UFOlogy and UFOs

“The UFOs that never were” We climbed over the fence and started heading towards the red and blue lights and they just disappeared. Once we reached the farmer’s house we could see a beacon going around so we went towards it. We followed it for about 2 miles before we could see it was coming from a lighthouse. John Burroughs January 1981 statement When we got within a 50 meter distance. The obje...