Eric Shirley, chair of the DTA task force on ethics, presented this document to the DTA members at the annual meeting. We are making it available to help members with the reporting guidelines and current state laws regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (PPSA).

Also available is an Excel spreadsheet that you can save and use to satisfy reporting requirements.


ADDITIONAL REFERENCES include:

• For the individual portions of the bill, or to see the bill in its entirety, link to
  http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:h.r.03590:



• The PPSA section 6002 can be found on pages 1542 – 1563 of H.R. 3590.
  For the complete 2,076 page bill in PDF format, link to:
  http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr3590as/pdf/BILLS-111hr3590as.pdf



• For the AdvaMed “Code of Ethics on Interactions with Health Care Professionals”:
  http://www.advamed.org/NR/rdonlyres/61D30455-F7E9-4081-B219-12D6CE347585/0/AdvaMedCodeofEthicsRevisedandRestatedEffective20090701.pdf



• For the PhRMA “Code on Interactions with Healthcare Professionals”:
  http://www.phrma.org/sites/default/files/108/phrma_marketing_code_2008.pdf

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