Device Firms Participate In Private Sector Health Savings Pledge
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
The device sector participated with five other health industry groups last week in a pledge to the White House to employ private-sector efforts to produce major reductions to U.S. healthcare spending
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