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Home » CMS announces catheter ablation coverage panel

CMS announces catheter ablation coverage panel

August 18, 2009 By MassDevice

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The MassDevice Weekly Roundup brings you the latest medical device news and information.

The MassDevice Checkup

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Our weekly checkup takes the temperature of the public medical device companies in the three largest markets in the U.S.: Massachusetts, Minnesota and California. In addition to the indices for each state, which track the overall movement of the sector, we compare Monday morning’s opening share prices with their value when the markets close Friday afternoon and calculate the biggest gainers and losers. Read More more arrow

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News

CMS announces panel on catheter ablation for treatment of atrial fibrillation
Federal health insurer will take up the coverage decision Oct. 21. Read More more arrow

Stryker Corp. heir is back in the market
Ronda Stryker’s at it again. Read More more arrow

Creative NeuroScience Applications sues Innovative Spinal Technologies
More bad news for the bankrupt spinal implant maker. Read More more arrow

Bigwigs boost stakes in BoSci
Boston Scientific’s new head and its largest institutional investor increase their pieces of the pie. Read More more arrow

FDA: DePuy Orthopaedics ceramic/metal hip replacement is OK
Its no better or worse than implants already on the market, according to the safety watchdog. Read More more arrow

Phase Forward re-ups deal with SGS Life Science Services
Clinical trial data management provider renews its agreement with the Belgian CRO. Read More more arrow

MassDevice’s earnings roundup
A roundup of medical device makers’ sales and earnings reports. Read More more arrow

ALPCO Diagnostics inks U.K. distribution deal
Diagnostics maker/distributor establishes sales channel with U.K. distributor Stratech Scientific. Read More more arrow

Abbott extends Xience V trial
The post-implantation study of the drug-eluting stent expands.
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Federal judge to Cordis Corp.: My bad
A federal judge pleads overwork in reversing a prior ruling against the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary in infringement suit against Boston Scientific. Read More more arrow

Millipore taps new life sciences VP
One of the lab equipment maker’s former business development strategists to lead its life sciences division. Read More more arrow

Thermo Fisher establishes grant program
Waltham, Mass.-based lab equipment maker to donate $400,000 worth of RNAi reagents to five research programs. Read More more arrow

FDA’s Woodcock on the chopping block?
The Food & Drug Administration’s top drugs official is under fire. Will she follow CDRH head Daniel Schultz out the door?
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NMT Medical moves to NASDAQ’s Capital Market
Boston-based cardiac implant-maker jumps from the tech exchange’s Global Market under threat of delisting. Read More more arrow

Heartware lines up $80 million
Ventricular implants maker eyes $60 million private placement as one-time suitor Thoratec ponies up another $20 million in loans. Read More more arrow

LeMaitre Vascular re-ups Endologix distribution deal
Vascular device maker extends its agreement to distribute the Powerlink stent graft in Europe. Read More more arrow

Oridion inks linkage deal with Masimo
Pact will connect Oridion’s capnography equipment and Masimo’s remote patient monitoring system. Read More more arrow

Texcel Medical adds staff, spends $1 million to boost manufacturing capacity
Contract manufacturer gears up to meet growing demand from global markets. Read More more arrow

Patent battle swings to Smith & Nephew
A German court hands a round to the British conglomerate in patent battle against Kinetic Concepts. Read More more arrow

Hologic CEO: Capital equipment sales will be slow to recover
Don’t count Jack Cumming as bullish on sales of big-ticket items. Read More more arrow

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Blogs

Career Sampler: Open jobs in the medical device industry
A sampling of some of the hundreds of open positions at medical device makers around the country. Read More more arrow

MassDevice blog: Is the life science IPO in recovery?
Maybe. A successful initial public offering by EMR processing provider Emdeon is encouraging for firms in the HIT space, but other life science companies haven’t fared as well. Read More more arrow

Weekly Wireless Roundup: Cracking the vault
An interview with Microsoft’s HealthVault strategist George Scriban; the $290 billion problem of poor patient medication adherence (and are glowing pillboxes the solution?); and the first implantation of a wireless-enabled pacemaker. Read More more arrow

Reimbursement Row: It’s time for an end to the wacko protests over end-of-life care
The cynical and sometimes downright crazy opposition to a minor aspect of President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform initiative needs to stop. Let’s debate the issue on its merits. Read More more arrow

MedGadget’s MedTech Monday: Embeda is for chronic pain, not crushing and snorting
Unless you like opioid withdrawal; the world’s smallest tweezers; the blind seeing the world using their tongues; the world’s smallest laser; and hands-free laparoscopic organ retraction. Read More more arrow

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