Senate Republican leadership is continuing its closed-door effort on legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, causing Democrats, and some Republicans, to demand more access to the procedures. As yet, it's not clear how close the Senate bill will come to the House American Health Care Act, passed last month, in terms of the estimated number of individuals to lose health insurance and, thus, the impact on device procedure volumes. (Also see "Device Tax Repeal Passes House With GOP Health-Care Bill" - Medtech Insight, 4 May, 2017.)
In the context of ACA-repeal efforts, device companies have mostly highlighted the prospect for permanent repeal of the medical device...