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The Physician Payments Sunshine Act

The Physician Payments Sunshine Act is undergoing updates to improve federal disclosure of financial relationships between medical professionals and industry. Currently, only a few states have established transparency requirements, making it difficult for patients and professionals to access key information. The new legislation mandates reporting of payments over $100, with specific details required. Noncompliance can result in significant penalties. Stakeholders are encouraged to provide feedback as the legislation evolves, promoting greater transparency in healthcare.

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The Physician Payments Sunshine Act

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  1. 2009 Update: The Physician Payments Sunshine Act

  2. Push for federal disclosure legislation • Only a handful of states currently have disclosure requirements, but the number is growing. • Companies have to comply with a growing number of state laws and regulations. • Of existing requirements, most don’t cover medical device companies, few make information public.

  3. Patients have no definitive resource for information on physician-industry relationships. • Medical professionals have limited ways to learn about potential conflicts of thought leaders, article writers, speakers. • Research institutions have demonstrated inability to monitor potential conflicts of their employees.

  4. New legislation • What must be reported: • Name • Business address • Value of payment • Dates of payment • Form of payment • Nature of payment • Product connected to payment, if any

  5. New legislation • What must be reported: • Payments over $100 annually • Differs from prior $500 threshold • Physician ownership in nonpublic companies

  6. New legislation • Penalties for noncompliance: • $1,000 to $10,000, with annual cap of $100,000 • Knowing noncompliance: • $10,000 to $100,000, with $1,000,000 annual cap.

  7. Preemption • “the provisions of this section shall preempt any law or regulation… that requires an applicable manufacturer to disclose or report information regarding a payment or other transfer of value provided by the applicable manufacturer to a covered recipient.” • This law “shall not preempt any law… that requires the disclosure or reporting of information not required to be disclosed or reported under this section.”

  8. What is next • Currently accepting comments • Input, questions always welcome: (202) 224-4515

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