Compliance officers at healthcare and pharmaceutical companies who are waiting for government rules on disclosure of payments to medical professionals will wait even longer. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has missed an Oct. 1 deadline for the rules, and now says the spring of 2012 is a more likely time frame.
Donald Berwick, director of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), said in a recent letter to Congress that the organization is delaying proposals that would address payment disclosures made by pharmaceutical companies and hospitals to medical professionals.
