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The Sunshine Act requires manufacturers of drugs, medical devices, biological and medical supplies covered by the three federal health care programs Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to collect and track all financial relationships with physicians and teaching hospitals and to report these data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
The Federation of American Hospitals, which represents hospitals and healthcare companies, has been critical of the CMS transparency rules, arguing they are confusing and unhelpful to consumers.
The Enhancing the Quality and Transparency of health research Network (EQUATOR Network [1]) is an international initiative aimed at promoting transparent and accurate reporting of health research studies to enhance the value and reliability of medical research literature. [2]
The PRISMA flow diagram, depicting the flow of information through the different phases of a systematic review. PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) is an evidence-based minimum set of items aimed at helping scientific authors to report a wide array of systematic reviews and meta-analyses, primarily used to assess the benefits and harms of a health care ...
Health care is one of the most burdensome expenses saddled on Americans. Half of adults in the U.S. report struggling to afford health care, and about the same portion says a $500 medical expense ...
The Health and Human Services Oversight Committee unanimously agreed Friday to set up a subcommittee to "investigate the transparency and the reporting by New Hampshire Board ...
The Congressional Budget Office analyzed the reasons for healthcare cost inflation over time, reporting in 2008 that: "Although many factors contributed to the growth, most analysts have concluded that the bulk of the long-term rise resulted from the health care system's use of new medical services that were made possible by technological ...
Apr. 8—This month, new federal guidelines took effect which will institute broad changes in how patients can access their medical information. Health care patients across the United States will ...