Tag Archives: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

The Yin and Yang of the Court Decision on HCR

By Guest Blogger | Published: June 29, 2012
by Tom Norton If you’re like me, you probably bounded out of bed on Thursday morning, took in all the news you could find about the Supreme Court and healthcare reform…and then you waited.  You waited patiently for the biggest legal call in American healthcare history.  And then, there it was. What did we learn?  Well, first, [...]
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Patient Assistance Programs: Are They Still Relevant?

By William Looney | Published: March 12, 2012
One of the key reputational assets of Big Pharma is the patient assistance program [PAP], which provides patented innovative medicines to needy patients for free or at a nominal charge – it’s the industry’s own branded version of the social safety net. But a shifting landscape of government fiscal pressures, economic decline and the erratic [...]
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HCR and the Supreme Court: Three Important Days in March

By Guest Blogger | Published: March 2, 2012
The Supreme Court will open up deliberations on the constitutionality of three important parts of healthcare reform (HCR) this month. by Tom Norton After nearly two years of legal wrangling, on November 14, 2011 the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) determined that as a result of contradictory US Appellate Courts findings on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, [...]
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Compliance: Europe Feels the Sunshine

By Julian Upton | Published: February 15, 2012
As the perceived urgency for transparency and compliance in global pharma grows ever stronger, the ‘Sunshine provisions’ of the US’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) seem increasingly aptly named. The spotlight that has been exposing and illuminating – and sometimes burning – issues around the financial interests of physicians and academic medical centers [...]
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