AdvaMed Chair Nadim Yared Talks Challenges, Priorities

The AdvaMed chairman and CVRx CEO spoke to Medtech Insight from the floor of the Pennsylvania Convention Center at this year's MedTech Conference. The discussion focused on the industry's push for a breakthrough reimbursement pathway, the impact of US-China tariff wars and the industry's answer to challenges from grassroots patient groups on device safety, among other challenges and priorities.

Philadelphia, Pa. USA, Aug. 11, 2018: main entrance of the Pennsylvania Convention Center with police during the Philly Free Streets event.
The MedTech Conference was held this week at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia

AdvaMed is hopeful the Trump administration will propose a new reimbursement pathway by year's end that could supply temporary, automatic coverage to US FDA-designated breakthrough devices on the condition of data collection. That is among the issues discussed by AdvaMed Chairman and CVRx Inc. President and CEO Nadim Yared in a interview with Medtech Insight's editor David Filmore at the 2018 MedTech Conference in Philadelphia. Check out the interview in the video below.

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