In the new Health Bills proposed by Congress, lawmakers are addressing the relationships and potential financial ties of physicians and the medical industry, namely pharmaceutical companies. The Health Bills are attempting to require medical device and pharmaceutical companies to file annual reports to the government about their financial ties to doctors.
The new proposals are titled "sunshine provisions" in an attempt to shed light in to financial relationships between the medical industry and physicians.
Read the full article from The New York Times here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/health/policy/04sunshine.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss
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