In a move that undoubtedly has the unspoken support of the medical device industry, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported it will revisit several rules governing emissions that affect a broad swath of industries.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HHS reported a plan to reduce staffing by 10,000 in an immediate reduction, which when paired with retirement initiatives will drop staffing by as many as 20,000.

The U.S. Senate has approved the nominations of two key members of the Trump administration, Marty Makary as FDA commissioner and Jay Bhattacharya as NIH director. While these are two of the most critical appointments for the Trump administration, the Senate still has two other important appointments in queue, including the directors of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the CDC.

The U.S. FDA’s March 4, 2025, warning letter to Dexcom Inc. is a well-detailed but heavily redacted document explaining the agency’s misgivings about procedures such as monitoring of acetaminophen content in glucose test dishes.

Mehmet Oz, the Trump administration’s pick to lead the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), appeared for a second time in the Senate for the CMS administrator’s job.

The FDA reported March 25 that Smiths Medical Inc., is recalling a series of oral and nasal endotracheal tubes because the diameters of the tubes may present with “a smaller diameter than expected.”

The U.S. Medicare program took several bites out of rates paid for radiation oncology services under the physician fee schedule, but stakeholders are again gaining traction on Capitol Hill with a plea for intervention.

Third-party litigation funding (TPLF) has a checkered reputation in the U.S. med-tech industry and the practice has now raised hackles in the European Union as well. The European Commission recently posted a document explaining how EU-wide legislation would map onto member state law, the results of which suggest that any pan-EU legislation would be at best a tricky exercise in policymaking.

Several American states are forging into a legislative vacuum where regulation of AI is concerned as Congress continues to delay action. Adoption of AI regulations on a state level increases the risk of a fragmented regulatory landscape, as already exists in U.S. privacy law, further complicating the path forward for med-tech companies deploying AI algorithms.

The final U.S. Medicare national coverage determination for transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement (TTVR) devices comes with an expected coverage with evidence development mandate, but some analysts expect that TTVR devices will face competition from tricuspid transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (T-TEER) devices, the subject of an impending national coverage analysis.