If Medicare acts, the potential of AI-enabled technologies to improve healthcare outcomes for patients, regardless of their geographic location or socioeconomic status, will be closer to being fully realized.

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While there are many consumer technology and electronic products for which the right to repair ideology may not have much of a safety risk, or perhaps even be beneficial, life-saving medical devices should not be among them. T

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The Clarifying Remanufacturing to Protect Patient Safety Act was introduced by Reps. Scott Peters (D-CA), Kim Schrier (D-WA), and John Joyce (R- PA) to clarify the meaning of medical device remanufacturing and empower the FDA to educate company technicians so they know if they’ve crossed the line into a regulated activity. 

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By increasing oversight and regulation of independent service operators to ensure the quality, safety, and effectiveness of all device servicing Congress and the FDA can prevent future patients and providers from having to experience unnecessary harm caused by faulty medical device repair.

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As the nation continues to reckon with disparities in health, we have a real opportunity to remove barriers to proper kidney care.

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