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Sunshine… Or Clouds? Drug Makers Grapple With Transparency Law
By: ED SILVERMAN For the past year, the pharmaceutical industry has been bracing for the Sunshine Act, a provision of health…
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Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater
By Robert E. Harbaugh, MD The majority of attention regarding the Affordable Care Act has been focused on health insurance issues,…
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Opinion: Medical device tax is cutting jobs, R&D and U.S. investment, survey shows
June 2, 2014 by MassDevice The 2.3% medical device excise tax implemented in January 2013 as a part of Obamacare has already…
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Biomet CEO: Medtech helps curb healthcare costs
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Recent data exposures from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid have raised eyebrows about the cost…
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Survey: Medical device execs don’t think patient increase will offset tax
Executives at medical device companies say they’re more uncertain than ever that the boost in the number of patients who…
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Warren talks medical device tax with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) tells The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart why she supports repealing the medical device tax – even…
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Boxer: Curbing medical errors will save thousands of lives, billions of dollars per year
April 28, 2014 by Arezu Sarvestani Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) calls for new solutions to prevent hospital errors that put patients at needless risk,…
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Will Medicare patients be left out of the bionics revolution?
By: Brian Johnson @MassDevice The dawn of the Bionic Man is upon us. Bionic eyes help the blind to see and bionic ears allow…
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SEBELIUS RESIGNS AFTER HEALTH CARE ROLLOUT FIASCO
WASHINGTON (AP) — Embattled Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning as the White House seeks to move…
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Financial
VC firm Split Rock moves away from healthcare deals
Split Rock Partners to concentrate on software and Internet services investments. FORTUNE — Split Rock Partners is becoming the latest…
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CMS plans unprecedented dump of Medicare data | MassDevice.com On Call
April 4, 2014 by Arezu Sarvestani The White House plans to publicize a horde of Medicare physician data, perhaps as early as…
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Biotech companies say medical-device excise tax painful
Representatives from Pittsburgh businesses told a senior federal government official they’re concerned about the Medical Device Excise Tax and other aspects…
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Reid Slips On ‘Stupid’ Medical Device Tax
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) stumbled over his own words when rejecting efforts to repeal the medical device tax,…
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Senate Kills Medtech Tax, Obamacare Amendments, Sends Spending Bill Back to House
The U.S. Senate kills amendments to a spending bill that would have repealed the medical device tax and delayed Obamacare…
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Analyst: Medical Device Tax Is Causing ‘Significant Harm’
The medical device tax is already causing “significant harm” to the medtech industry and it remains to be seen whether…
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