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Could their be a bipartisan Obamacare fix?

October 2, 2017 By Chris Newmarker

Republican efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act appear to be dead – at least for now. But two U.S. senators may soon unveil a bipartisan proposal to make modest healthcare fixes. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the committee’s ranking […]

Filed Under: Healthcare Reform Tagged With: ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare

4 top medtech stories you need to know in late 2017

September 28, 2017 By Chris Newmarker

The U.S. government continues to create a lot of uncertainty for the medical device industry, but medtech companies are still making some big moves. The frenzy of major mergers continues, which makes sense from an investor standpoint when it comes to reducing risk. Meanwhile, companies from outside the industry – including such high-tech giants as Apple, […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Digital Health, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Healthcare Reform, Mergers & Acquisitions, News Well Tagged With: Affordable Care Act, Alere, Apple, MDUFMA, Obamacare, Stryker

The top medtech stories of early 2017

March 24, 2017 By Chris Newmarker

The new Trump administration and Republican Congress – and all the accompanying change and uncertainty – is the major story for the medical device industry. But there are many other medtech stories worth noting from the first quarter of 2017. There was an FDA warning over Abbott’s Absorb bioresorbable stent, a continued spate of M&A deals, […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Healthcare Reform, Medicare, Mergers & Acquisitions Tagged With: Affordable Care Act, Donald Trump, Obamacare, top stories

Analysis: 5 ways Trump is making things uncertain for medtech

March 2, 2017 By Chris Newmarker

Want a word to sum up 2017? Try “uncertainty.” Chris Newmarker, Managing Editor Wall Street investors remain on a sugar high from the new Trump administration and Republican Congress. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up hundreds of points since President Donald Trump’s promise to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday that he wanted to […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Healthcare Reform, Medicare, News Well, Regulatory/Compliance, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Affordable Care Act, Donald Trump, Medical Device Manufacturers Association, Obamacare

Donald Trump: What medtech’s top executives are saying

February 3, 2017 By Chris Newmarker

For the most part, the medical device industry’s top executives have sounded positive about the new Trump administration and Republican Congress during recent earnings calls with analysts. Some such as Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky have even offered advice. And while there are many open questions, top executives insist potential repeal and replace of […]

Filed Under: Healthcare Reform, Medicare, News Well Tagged With: Abbott, ACA, Alex Gorsky, Baxter, BD, C.R. Bard, Chris Reidy, David Dvorak, Donald Trump, Gary Guthart, Intuitive Surgical, Joe Almeida, Johnson and Johnson, MedTech, Miles White, Obamacare, Timothy Ringer, Zimmer Biomet

Trump and medtech: What people in the industry think

January 26, 2017 By Chris Newmarker

Many MassDevice and Medical Design & Outsourcing readers think permanent medical device tax repeal should be a top priority for President Donald Trump and the Republican Congress. Many say the new administration will be good for medtech, too. Those were two of the major takeaways among nearly 100 MassDevice and MDO readers responding to an online […]

Filed Under: Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Healthcare Reform, Medicare, News Well Tagged With: ACA, Donald Trump, FDA, MedTech, Obamacare

Medtech sits on the sidelines as ACA repeal looms

January 13, 2017 By Chris Newmarker

Some major medical device industry lobbying groups are staying mum for now about the expected repeal of the U.S. Affordable Care Act—even though an extensive overhaul of the national healthcare system would have a serious impact on medtech. With so much unpredictability around how the incoming Trump administration and the new Republican Congress will replace […]

Filed Under: Healthcare Reform, Medicare, News Well, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: ACA, AdvaMed, medicaldevicetax, MedTech, Obamacare

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