News Briefs: Device Tax Repeal Update; Surgery Firms Merge; Medtronic’s Drug-Eluting Balloon
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
House GOP freshman renew efforts to repeal the device tax. Minimally invasive surgery companies to merge. Medtronic submits the first module of the PMA for its drug-eluting balloon. More news.
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