Regulatory News In Brief

Modular PMA policy tied to user fee shortfall: CDRH's decision to exempt modular PMAs from user fees if the first module was submitted prior to Oct. 1, 2002 resulted in higher PMA costs for fiscal 2004, Director David Feigal tells attendees during the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society's annual meeting in Baltimore Oct. 19-22. "Had we made the opposite decision on modular 510(k)s, we would have hit the [FY 2003] fees right on the nose," he notes. "One of the reasons we didn't raise $25 mil. and only raised $19 mil. [is that we had] 54 PMAs last year and there were also 22 modular PMAs in house." Standard PMA fees for FY 2004 will increase almost 35% to $206,811 (1"The Gray Sheet" Aug. 4, 2003, p. 3)...