Washington Roundup: Consultant says UK still a stingy market, NICE an EU bellwether-medicaldevicedaily: Device makers know all too well that obtaining a CE mark is no guarantor of access to European markets, which are at least as tightly governed by payers as by regulatory entities. There are several reasons to approach the UK first, but at least one consultant believes industry might do well to approach other EU nations first. This is in part because reimbursement is very tight in the UK, but also because the authorities in the UK are stubborn about coverage, and their decisions serve as something of an informal standard for coverage decisions in other nations.
