Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) is calling it quits at the end of next year.Brian Johnson at MassDevice examines the opportunity this offers enemies of the device tax.Apparently there are rich ...
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A new Silicon Valley Bank report on the medical device tax has more bright spots than you would expect. Executives from device companies seem to feel optimistic, even though they ...
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If this is the way most House hearings go, I can see why nothing gets done in Washington. On the third day of hearings about FDA regulations of mobile medical ...
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February 27, 2013 12:34 pm by Veronica Combs | 0 Comments
As Congress can’t make any progress on the sequester despite the pain it will mean for healthcare, medical research and education, it’s easy to understand why the medical device tax ...
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February 13, 2013 7:53 am by Veronica Combs | 2 Comments
Many companies were hoping the medical device tax would perish on the rocks at the bottom of many fiscal cliffs that Washington has been navigating lately.No such luck, yet; it ...
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Group purchasing organization Novation is mad as hell.In a sharply worded statement Wednesday, Novation charges that several of its pediatric, community-based and academic hospitals are reporting that at least one ...
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December 20, 2012 2:36 pm by Veronica Combs | 1 Comments
Anything is possible in the fiscal cliff negotiations, but without direct congressional action, the medical device tax kicks in Jan. 1.In the medical devices group on LinkedIn, Joe Hage asked ...
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December 20, 2012 7:08 am by Veronica Combs | 0 Comments
AdvaMed members predict that the medical device tax will take an enormous toll in dollars and employees. A recent survey of 81 members shows that 62% are planning to lay ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service on Wednesday released final rules for a new tax on medical devices, products ranging from surgical sutures to knee replacement implants, that ...
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Device lobby firm AdvaMed has been pushing hard to repeal the 2.3 percent tax on revenue that most device companies will have to pay starting in January.It has held a ...
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Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) has previously estimated that its share of the 2.3 percent medical device tax payable to the federal government is between $125 million to $175 million annually.At the time, ...
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November 15, 2012 7:23 pm by Rau, Jordan | 0 Comments
With the national health law’s political future now entrenched, a deluge of new rules is expected in the coming days and weeks as the Obama administration fleshes out the law’s ...
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Morgan Stanley analyst David Lewis may be cutting the chance of a device tax repeal to 20 percent from 30 percent given the re-election of President Obama, but device lobby ...
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November 12, 2012 8:30 am by Veronica Combs | 0 Comments
The National Venture Capital Association thinks the payment board and the medical device tax might go down in a blaze of bipartisan glory. The son of Obamacare is a possibility ...
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November 8, 2012 1:12 pm by Chris Seper | 0 Comments
The hunt for the medical device sector’s next Scott Brown may focus on Indiana.Some medical device executives put in a call to newly elected Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly as soon ...
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