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CME Compliance: Commercial Support
Commercial support is defined as financial or inkind contributions given by a commercial interest,
which is used to pay all or part of the costs of a
CME activity.
A commercial interest is defined as any entity
producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing
health care goods or services consumed by, or
used on, patients.
CME Compliance: Commercial Support
What can commercial support be used for?
• Educational materials
• Honoraria for faculty, authors, or planners
• Travel/lodging expenses for faculty, authors,
or planners
• Activity promotion
• Audio-visual costs
• Food and beverage
CME Compliance: Commercial Support
If you plan to seek commercial support to help
fund your activity, you must do so through the
official LSU channels:
Step 1
Identify the potential source of commercial
support and determine how much you want to
request.
CME Compliance: Commercial Support
Step 2
Fill out all application materials that are required by
the commercial interest for submission. You may require
some documents from the CME office such as the LSU
CME accreditation certificate, W-9, Mission Statement,
etc. If an online application is used, fill out all fields and
print it out, but do not submit it yet.
CME Compliance: Commercial Support
Step 3
Submit your grant packet to the Office of
Sponsored Projects for approval. You will need
to include a yellow routing sheet, available on
the LSUHSC website:
http://www.lsuhsc.edu/no/administration/rs/
GrantsContractsProcessing.htm
CME Compliance: Commercial Support
Step 4
After the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
signs the grant submission, it is ready to be
submitted.
CME Compliance: Commercial Support
Some important rules to remember:
• A commercial interest cannot require
you to accept advice or services from
them concerning teachers, authors,
or participants. They also cannot
select or provide any educational
content as a condition of contributing
funds or services.
• Educational materials cannot contain
any advertising, trade name or
product-group message.
CME Compliance: Commercial Support
• Commercial support must be disclosed to the
learners in the program materials, but disclosure
may not include the use of a trade name or
product-group message.
• Disclosure also cannot include any corporate
logos of a commercial interest.
• A standard disclosure statement reads: “This
activity is supported by an educational grant from
(name of commercial interest).”
CME Compliance: Commercial Support
• The content of your activity must promote
improvements in healthcare, and not a specific
business interest of commercial interest.
• Presentations must also give a balanced view of
therapeutic options. Use of generic names will
contribute to impartiality. If trade names are
used, the products of several companies should
be named, not just those of one company.
CME Compliance: Commercial Support
You CANNOT use commercial support for:
• Travel, lodging, honoraria, or personal
expenses for non-teacher, non-author, or nonplanner participants of your activity.
• Any social event or meal that takes
precedence over educational events.
• Any costs specifically prohibited under the
terms of the Letter of Agreement with the
commercial interest.
CME Compliance: Commercial Support
All CME supported by commercial interests must
have a written agreement between the provider
(LSU) and the commercial interest which details
the terms, conditions, and purposes of the
commercial support, signed by representative of
both parties.
Finally, you must be able to
produce accurate documentation
detailing the receipt and
expenditure of all commercial
support.
CME Compliance: Commercial Support
Post-Test: ACCME Compliant or Not?
A pharmaceutical company contacts the LSU
Department of Medicine and wants to send a
speaker they have identified to deliver a Grand
Rounds presentation. They have offered to pay
all expenses relating to sending the speaker.
CME Compliance: Commercial Support
Post-Test: ACCME Compliant or Not?
A pharmaceutical company contacts the LSU
Department of Medicine and wants to send a
speaker they have identified to deliver a Grand
Rounds presentation. They have offered to pay
all expenses relating to sending the speaker.
NOT COMPLIANT: A commercial interest may not
select faculty (speakers) for any CME-certified activity.
CME Compliance: Commercial Support
Post-Test: ACCME Compliant or Not?
An orthopaedic device manufacturer is
providing support for a workshop on spine injury
repair. A representative calls the course director
and they agree on the terms of how the money
will be used.
CME Compliance: Commercial Support
Post-Test: ACCME Compliant or Not?
An orthopaedic device manufacturer is
providing support for a workshop on spine injury
repair. A representative calls the course director
and they agree on the terms of how the money
will be used.
NOT COMPLIANT: There must be a written agreement
between the CME provider and commercial interest.
CME Compliance: Commercial Support
Post-Test: ACCME Compliant or Not?
The LSU Section of Emergency Medicine is
holding a 3-day course on the latest practice
guidelines for ER physicians. They are going to
provide handbooks with all presentations, and will
pay the printing costs with money received from an
educational grant from a pharmaceutical company.
CME Compliance: Commercial Support
Post-Test: ACCME Compliant or Not?
The LSU Section of Emergency Medicine is
holding a 3-day course on the latest practice
guidelines for ER physicians. They are going to
provide handbooks with all presentations, and will
pay the printing costs with money received from an
educational grant from a pharmaceutical company.
COMPLIANT: Commercial support may be used to pay
for educational costs like printing program materials.
CME Compliance: Commercial Support
QUESTIONS?
Please contact the LSU CME office at (504) 568-2000 or
email Doug Grigsby at [email protected]