Financial disclosure news and information

HCA, Nashville, provided more details of its initial public offering in a securities filing. HCA first announced the offering in May 2010, and published reports indicate that it expects to move forward with the offering in early March. The filing did not list a date for the offering.
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A new survey shows that hospitals in tax-exempt credit markets appear only marginally more forthcoming with investors compared with other borrowers.
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Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) sent a letter asking HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to expedite implementation of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, which requires drug and medical-device companies to disclose payments, gifts and other items of value given to doctors. The...
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The percentage of doctors reporting financial ties to medical-product manufacturers has dropped over the past six years, but the vast majority of doctors still have some type of financial relationship with makers of drugs and medical devices, according to researchers at Massachusetts General...
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Over the past several years, no fewer than 15 drug and device companies have begun to disclose on their websites the payments they make to physicians, whether in the form of consulting, honoraria, royalties or food and travel. Some of the companies released this data as part of a settlement of...
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Disclosure of physician authors' financial interests and industry ties remains incomplete and inconsistent, according to a study posted on the Archives of Internal Medicine website that compared 2007 financial data with articles published in 26 orthopedic-related journals in 2008.
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The top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee claims that CMS Administrator Don Berwick, M.D., is refusing to hand over key funding information about his former employer, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
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