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Industry Advocacy Group Goes Global After Device Tax Repeal

After an eleventh-hour win last year that saw Congress repeal the medical device excise tax, AdvaMed is going more global. CEO Scott Whitaker sat down with Medtech Insight for a lengthy chat about what the lobby group will focus on in 2020, including reimbursement challenges, the upcoming medical device user-fee negotiations, and negotiations with governments that are key to the industry ecosystem.

AdvaMed’s Scott Whitaker
AdvaMed CEO Scott Whitaker spoke with Medtech Insight at his Washington, DC, office about the group's 2020 agenda. • Source: Ferdous Al-Faruque

AdvaMed may have won a seven-year fight to repeal the 2.3% medical device excise tax, but the largest medtech advocacy group is not resting on its laurels just yet. CEO Scott Whitaker says the next battlegrounds include reimbursement certainty for industry, access to international markets, ensuring realistic ethylene oxide (EtO) sterilization regulations, and more.

Whitaker recently sat down with Medtech Insight at his office in Washington, DC, for a podcast interview covering a broad...

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