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Grassley wants to see med schools' conflict of interest policies
Continuing his campaign to clean up healthcare industry relationships, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has asked 23 medical schools to share details on their conflict-of-interest policies. Grassley's... Read more...
Tweaks could help GOP accept 'co-op' health plan
Even though there are some lingering concerns, Congressional Republicans and Democrats may finally have found some common ground when it comes to healthcare, according to Modern Healthcare. Sen. Kent... Read more...
RI legislature may limit non-profit hospital execs' pay
In most cases, a non-profit hospital executive's pay is between them and the board. Still, if it's a high number, it can create a lot of, let us say, misunderstandings when it shows up in a newspaper... Read more...
Medtronic rebuked by Grassley for failure to disclose consulting relationship
Medical devicemaker Medtronic has announced that it has suspended its consulting arrangements with a former military physician who has been accused of falsifying research involving the use of a... Read more...
Senate may add 5 percent bonus to Medicare for primary care MDs
After years of talk about the growing shortage of primary care doctors, the Senate seems to be doing something--maybe not something huge, but something--to address the problem. As part of a package... Read more...
Grassley targets salaries for non-profit hospital execs
According to a recent survey by the IRS, non-profit hospital presidents earned about $500,000 a year on average in salary and benefits--and a smaller group more closely studied by the agency had... Read more...
Grassley wants charity care standards in stimulus
Working with another member of the Senate Finance Committee, perennial not-for-profit hospital critic Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is offering two amendments to the massive stimulus bill that should... Read more...
Medical publisher challenged by senator over ghostwriting claims
Medical publisher Elsevier has agreed to investigate allegations by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) that one of its journals published an article ghostwritten by a pharmaceutical company promoting its... Read more...
NIH faces scrutiny for weak oversight of conflicts of interest
Here at FierceHealthcare, we've often received news of conflicts of interest that a researcher had and didn't disclose. In theory, however, there are some checks and balances that should help prevent... Read more...
Federal bill would link Medicare hospital pay to quality
Now here's a bill that would scare me a bit if I were a hospital administrator--even if it was inevitable (and it is) that such a measure would be written. Sens. Max Baucus (D-MT) and Chuck Grassley... Read more...
