Speaking Of Medtech, Ep. 5: MDUFA V User-Fee Negotiations
Executive Summary
In this episode of Speaking Of Medtech we discuss the Medical Device User Fee Amendments, or MDUFA, the negotiations for which come around every five years. The MDUFA V talks between industry and the US FDA appear with the inevitability of an unloved season – it seems no one is ever terribly excited to engage in the user-fee process. Here, we break things down.
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