Flash: Senate passes FDA user fee bill with bipartisan blessing

Flash: Senate passes FDA user fee bill with bipartisan blessing-massdevice.com:


Members of Congress's upper house voted yesterday to pass a bill reauthorizing fees medical device and drug companies pay for FDA review.

Medical device tax: Repeal to get House vote following Memorial holiday

Medical device tax: Repeal to get House vote following Memorial holiday-massdevice.com:


House Republicans are set to push a vote on Erik Paulsen's (R-Minn.) medical device tax repeal bill following the Memorial Day break, and GOP Senators push repeal efforts alongside discussions on reauthorizaton of the FDA's user fees.

MDUFMA: GOP hold-ups in Senate may push back FDA user fee vote, says Reid

MDUFMA: GOP hold-ups in Senate may push back FDA user fee vote, says Reid-massdevice.com:
A slew of Republican amendments to a bill reauthorizing the fees the FDA collects for reviewing medical devices and drugs threaten to forestall a vote on the Senate floor, according to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).

Medical device tax: Partisan furor continues in Massachusetts

Medical device tax: Partisan furor continues in Massachusetts-massdevice.com: Pundits and prospective lawmakers use the medical device tax to target opponents in Massachusetts, as more legislators sign on for repeal.

Right infighting over health care

Right infighting over health care-politco.com:

Thirty minutes.That’s the roughly time it took for conservatives to jump all over Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and his leadership team after the GOP’s game plan for dealing with President Barack Obama’s health care law leaked to the media.

Medical device tax: "This was not supposed to be an outcome of ObamaCare"

Medical device tax: "This was not supposed to be an outcome of ObamaCare"-massdevice.com:
Former FDA official and current conservative think-tank fellow Henry Miller writes that the approaching 2.3% medical device levy stunts the U.S. device industry

Device tax: Nationwide efforts aim to repeal, relax impending levy

Device tax: Nationwide efforts aim to repeal, relax impending levy-massdevice.com:
Stakeholders pick up the pace in efforts to repeal the dreaded 2.3% medical device sales tax as the medical device industry creeps ever closer to the January 1 dreaded launch date.

Progress Made on How Medicare Pays Doctors

Progress Made on How Medicare Pays Doctors-wsj.com:

A Democratic congresswoman and Republican congressman made a small move forward in an effort to change the way Medicare pays doctors Wednesday, introducing a bill that would end regular congressional scrambles to stave off physician pay cuts by tapping savings from winding down the war in Afghanistan.

FLASH: House panel speeds FDA user fee bill

FLASH: House panel speeds FDA user fee bill-massdevice.com:


A health subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives OKs a bill reauthorizing the FDA's user fee program for the medical device and pharmaceutical industries.

GPO to IRS: Don't let device companies raise prices to offset the device tax

GPO to IRS: Don't let device companies raise prices to offset the device tax-massdevice.com: Group purchasing organization Premier urges the IRS to certify that medical device makers aren't passing on the burden of the impending 2.3% medical device levy by raising prices for their products.

Still in the dark about the Sunshine Act: CMS delays data collection for doc payments

Still in the dark about the Sunshine Act: CMS delays data collection for doc payments-massdevice.com:


The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid push back implementation of the Physician Payment Sunshine Act as the agency takes time to address more than 300 comments submitted on the proposed gift reporting rule.

GOP govs ask Senate, House leaders to kill medical device tax

GOP govs ask Senate, House leaders to kill medical device tax- massdevice.com:
The Republican governors of 5 states with large med-tech clusters ask the leadership of the U.S. House and Senate to repeal a 2.3% tax on U.S. medical device revenues that's slated to go into effect next year.