The medical device excise tax would cost 21,000 full-time jobs and a $1.7 billion reduction in gross domestic product if it returns next year, according to a report released this week by the nonprofit ...

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has had many disruptive effects on both the health care industry and the economy as a whole. One area receiving less attention that is raising health care costs and ...

Medical device manufacturers are shifting the cost of the 2.3 percent device tax, which went into effect on Jan. 1 as part of the Affordable Care Act, to hospitals and other healthcare providers, the ...

The medical device industry had reason to celebrate after Congress suspended the medical device tax for two years through its stopgap spending measure to reopen the government, STAT reports. 1.

As Republicans and Democrats have battled over reopening the federal government and raising the federal debt ceiling, one idea that keeps coming up is a repeal of the 2010 health law's tax on medical ...

In their efforts to defund the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives also demanded a $29-billion tax break for one of the country's more ...

The 2.3 percent excise tax imposed on medical devices in 2013 as part of the Affordable Care Act significantly reduced R&D investment, sales revenue, gross margins and earnings, according to a study ...

Republican House majority leader Kevin McCarthy is dubbing the third week of June “health care week.” It is then the House of Representatives will bring up a series of health care-related bills as the ...

Albany area companies among those calling for repeal of medical device tax that Internal Revenue Service improperly collected, new audit report shows. Pressure is again mounting to repeal a tax on ...

The effort to repeal the 2.3 percent medical device tax is winning bipartisan support. There are reportedly four separate bills in Congress that seek to ensure that the tax, designed to go into effect ...