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Republicans are reportedly trying to raise the pressure on Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) to support repealing the medical device tax, a position she’s taken since before winning her seat in the U.S. Senate.
One of Medtech’s BFFs on Capitol Hill is now a BMOC too.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill are urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to make changes to its national coverage determinations on speech assist devices used by patients suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
This week Sens. David Vitter (R-La.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Reps. Cedric Richmond (D-La.) and Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) penned a letter to Medicare chief Marilyn Tavenner urging the federal health insurance program to alter its policy on speech assist devices.
Incoming Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said a vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act and its 2.3% medical device tax could come as soon as next month.
In an interview with CQ Roll Call, the veteran lawmaker promised to make repealing the healthcare reform law his top priority and hinted that a vote could come as soon as U.S. Senate officially transfers control to Republicans Jan. 6, 2015.
(Reuters) — A draft bill is circulating in Washington that would curb the FDA’s oversight of electronic medical records and some clinical support software, according to a copy of the legislation seen by Reuters.
(Reuters) – Republicans in the U.S. Congress will soon move to kill a medical device tax imposed less than 2 years ago under President Barack Obama’s healthcare law, congressional aides and analysts said today.
UPDATED Nov. 5, 2014, with comment from AdvaMed.
The impact of the medical device tax is "relatively small" and will affect consumer prices more than the medtech industry, according to a report released this week by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service.
