Category: Supply Chain

To incentivize domestic medical supply manufacturing, the U.S. is raising tariff rates on syringes, needles, personal protective equipment, and medical and surgical gloves, the White House said May 14. 

Tandem Diabetes Care has recalled a mobile app that pairs with its t:slim X2 insulin pump due to software issues, according to an FDA safety alert issued May 8. 

The FDA is instructing healthcare facilities to avoid using two heart devices from Getinge amid concerns that the company has not adequately resolved issues that spurred a string of recalls over the last year.

Medical supplies cost hospitals $146.9 billion in 2023 — an uptick from about $140 billion expenses a year prior, the American Hospital Association said in a May update of its Costs of Caring report. 

A growing number of health systems are moving to end the use of desflurane — a common anesthesia gas that lingers in the atmosphere for more than a decade. 

In a letter to CMS, Premier and 10 other organizations asked the agency to remove catheter expenditures from accountable care organization calculations because of unusual “Medicare spending outside their control.”

Medline is planning to scoop up Ecolab, a global surgical solutions and medical product company. 

Miami-based Nicklaus Children’s Health System secured a 10-year deal with Royal Philips, the companies announced April 30.