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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Third-party coverage requests
As a member of the trade press, I get a kick out of how routinely some people in the mainstream media and the population at large routinely assume that device makers are driven by greed and that...
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Parallel review: Still not a big deal?
Well, FDA and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are at it again with parallel review, but this time they’ve tacitly acknowledged what everyone knew all along; that it would never be...
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A whole new world
Five years ago this month my byline began appearing on the pages of Medical Device Daily. When I first joined the MDD staff in October 2006 I knew very little about this industry. It was like moving to...
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Buck for the bang: Premium med-tech pricing
By Adi Renbaum, senior VP for health policy and reimbursement, Neocure Group Cook Medical’s Zilver PTX is likely to become the first peripheral drug-eluting stent (DES) to be approved in the U.S.,...
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Medicare’s decision to cover weight-reduction efforts is a good move, but...
By JIM STOMMEN Medical Device Daily Contributing Writer Talk about eating from the public trough: The folks who run Medicare are putting their money where our collective mouths are. The nation’s...
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Ditching Medicare: Maybe crazy, but tougher than you think
Whaddaya, nuts or somethin'? There are many definitions for the word “crazy,” and here’s another. Crazy is when you want to get out of Medicare and save the government and the taxpayer money, but the...
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TAVR: What it says about FDA and CMS
Doctors: the third leg of the PMA approval process? The story has been out for a while about transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), so maybe it’s time to project into the future. Before we head...
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Administration’s proposed cuts in U.S. spending on prevention/wellness...
By JIM STOMMEN Medical Device Daily Contributing Writer The recent decision by the Obama administration to propose big-time funding cuts for medical prevention and wellness programs is, like many of...
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Unhappiness of physicians is reflected in some startling numbers in...
As I read through one particular healthcare-related news item recently, the lyrics to the old “If you’re happy and you know it” song just plain took over my subconscious thinking. You know the one I’m...
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The implications and future of TAVR
The story of the transcatheter aortic valve implant is well underway thanks to the fact that the Sapien valve, made by Edwards Lifesciences, is on the market, but there is more to this story. Following...
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