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Open Payments & Aggregate Spend
CMS Open Payments Audit: Resources & FAQs
A CMS Open Payments audit is CMS's review of Sunshine Act data, with a proposed 30-day response window. 19 FAQs on triggers, penalties, and 5-year retention.
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Surveys & Insights
HCP Meal Limits Survey 2026: Compliance Benchmarks
qordata's 2026 survey of life sciences compliance teams: 50% cap HCP dinners at $130–$150, and 56% rely on just 1–2 people for TOV monitoring.
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Research Compliance
Reading Principal-Investigator Totals Correctly
Open Payments will show physicians associated with tens of millions in research value. Read correctly, that figure is an influence signal, not a paycheck.
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Research Compliance
Beyond Speaker Programs: 3-Year Risk Signals
We analyzed three years of national CMS Open Payments data, more than 46 million records, to find the risk signals in speaker program spending that summary tables miss.
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Research Compliance
Speaker Program Trends 2023-2025
We analyzed three years of national CMS Open Payments data to see whether speaker program spending is trending the way OIG and DOJ expect it to.
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Research Compliance
Speaker Program Enforcement Actions PY2025
From a $202M settlement to a $59.7M case, 2025 brought a wave of DOJ enforcement actions tied to speaker programs. Here's what they mean for your compliance program.
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Research Compliance
State Transparency Laws Beyond the Sunshine Act
Four or more states now enforce their own transparency and gift-ban rules on top of the federal Sunshine Act, with thresholds as low as $50 and penalties up to $10,000 per violation.
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