A provision in a major medical research package that would have weakened the Sunshine Act, which discloses payments to doctors and healthcare companies, has been dropped.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Tuesday that the provision he objected to was removed from a final version of the 21st Century Cures Act announced on Saturday. Grassley had objected to a quick passage of the bipartisan package unless the provision was dropped.
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