Drugmakers Receive Extended Deadline

Drugmakers are now required to record all payments and gifts, including dinners, rounds of golf and consulting fees, to doctors.  The Physician Payment Sunshine Act is part of President Obama’s reform of the health care system.  The extension is due to the proposed rule remaining unpublished so drugmakers will now have until the final rule is published in 2012 to be required to record the payments.  To read the story on Reuters, go here.