Perpetual Revolving Motion: Yet More Transits Through the Health Care Revolving Door

The pace of people spinning through the US federalrevolving door seems unprecedented. Most were people going from the health care corporations to government positions regulating or making policy influencing those same corporations.  Since our last roundup, of 11 days ago, we have found two more significant travelers from industry to government, and one from the previous administration to industry.  In addition, we realized that the case of one of the travelers discussed only last month is more significant than we realized.Nina Devlin from Mylan to Senior Communications Adviser for the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)As reported extremely briefly byThe Hill on Oct 27, 2017,The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has hireda senior executive from EpiPen maker Mylan to be a senior communications adviser in the agency, CBS News reported Friday.Nina Devlin, who was the head of global communications at Mylan, was reportedly hired on Oct. 15 and reports to the FDA ' s chief of staff.At the time Ms Devlin was doing public relations for Mylan,Mylan reached a$465 million settlement with the federal government stemming from a Justice Department claim that it had overcharged the government for EpiPens.The EpiPen is a medical device that treats dangerous allergic reactions by injecting epinephrine.Accusations that Mylan overcharged for EpiPens got so much media attention that it seemed superflouous to discuss this case on Health Care Renewal. However, we did discuss some...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Management Tags: DHHS Donald Trump FDA Mylan Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology OSHA revolving doors Source Type: blogs