China’s Aim For Centralized Bidding Pressures Medical Device Industry
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
China’s county-level public hospitals may be required to participate in provincial bidding to purchase medical devices like stents and pacemakers, putting pricing pressure on multinationals such as Boston Scientific, Medtronic and Abbott Laboratories and domestic manufacturers like MicroPort Scientific.
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