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Thursday, December 15, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News
From Health Affairs
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In case you missed it, we published a new Health Policy Brief last week
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Medical Device Shortages
In the December 2022 issue of Health Affairs, Trinidad Beleche and
coauthors investigate medical device shortages in the US from 2006-20
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Medical device shortages were particularly concerning during the
COVID-19 pandemic, which exposed vulnerabilities in device markets.
However, as Beleche and coauthors explain, "medical device shortages
are neither a new phenomenon nor the result of the COVID-19 pandemic
alone."
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Beleche and coauthors go on to examine trends in medical device
shortages over time, and indicate that shortages before 2020 "stemmed
from regulatory and enforcement actions resulting from product quality
and manufacturing issues."
Finally, Beleche and coauthors determine that the types of device
shortages differed during COVID-19.
Shortages during the pandemic involved personal protective equipment,
diagnostic testing supplies and equipment, ventilator-related medical
devices, and vital sign monitoring while pre-pandemic shortages involved
infusion pumps and related accessories, medical devices used in dialysis
treatment, needles and syringes, ventilators, and sterilization
products.
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Elsewhere At Health Affairs
In a continuation of yesterday's Forefront article, Nitzan Arad and Mark
McClellan consider the Inflation Reduction Act's probable effects
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on drug rebates, alternative payment arrangements, drug development, and
evidence to guide drug use.
In case you missed it, a new analysis from the Office of the Actuary at
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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(CMS) was released ahead-of-print yesterday. Anne B. Martin and
coauthors review national health care spending in 2021 and find that
spending in the US grew 2.7 percent.
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Characteristics Of Medical Device Shortages In The US, 2006-20
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Drug Pricing Reform In The Inflation Reduction Act: What Are the
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