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A visionary market leader, Access MediQuip provides proven, innovative and comprehensive medical device solutions. Access MediQuip delivers proven device benefit management for payors, streamlines the procurement process and reduces financial risk for healthcare providers and creates greater market opportunities for manufacturers through our flexible implant management platform. With insight gained through the management of over 80,000 life saving and life enhancing medical implants since 1997, Access MediQuip’s expertise is unrivaled. Access MediQuip leverages its extensive industry knowledge, robust technology platform, and trusted relationships with payors, healthcare providers and manufacturers to deliver exceptional value and insight.

Argenta Reimbursement Advisors provides strategically integrated reimbursement solutions to life science companies. Argenta’s focus is to deliver actionable strategic reimbursement counsel in order to work in concert with achieving the client’s business objectives. The Argenta team has the unique ability to leverage its expertise along the full continuum from strategy formation and coding and payment systems analysis to payer negotiations and customer reimbursement support. This means that Argenta can be a single-source solution for addressing the unique and often complex reimbursement needs of companies in the medical device industry.

At B&D Consulting (a division of the law firm of  Baker & Daniels LLP), our professionals have decades of experience with reimbursement, advocacy, science policy and regulatory issues. From start-up to Fortune 500 companies, our health & life sciences team provides a full range of integrated business consulting and legal services.

10% premium credit*

For more than 25 years, member insurers of the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies ("Chubb") have been providing cost-effective risk management and insurance protection tailored to the unique requirements of medical device companies. Chubb's insurance professionals specialize in the medical device market; they understand the issues and develop solutions for unique insurance needs. This experience and expertise, coupled with Chubb's financial strength and superior claims service, were the reasons MDMA selected Chubb as its preferred insurer for Property, Package, Clinical Trials Liability, Errors and Omissions Liability Insurance, Products Liability & Professional Liability Insurance.

The insurance offered by Chubb is:

• Clinical Trials and Product Liability: Insurance for commercialized products as well as products in all stages of human clinical trials.
• Errors and Omissions Liability Insurance: Insurance for financial loss to third parties arising out of negligence.
• Professional Liability: Insurance for companies conducting contract research.

Member Benefits

Medical Device Manufacturers Association (MDMA) Member Benefit:

• 10% premium credit (*subject to our rates and rules and regulatory limitations)
• Competitive premiums for companies at all stages
• Low minimum premiums for early stage companies
• Broad insurance to meet the unique needs of the medical device industry

More Information

More information about Chubb's capabilities in serving the Life Sciences industries can be found at www.chubb.com/mdma
To learn about specific details about the program, including coverages and premium rates, contact a Chubb appointed insurance agent or broker.

Chubb Group of Insurance Companies is a marketing name used to refer to the insurance subsidiaries of The Chubb Corporation. For a list of these subsidiaries and general information, please visit our website at www.chubb.com/mdma. Actual coverage is subject to the language of the policies as issued. Chubb, Box 1615, Warren, NJ 07061-1615.

Gov't Affairs and Corp. Communications Research and Consulting

Disposable Instrument Company manufactures custom metal disposable medical components and devices, as well as a line of standard wound drainage trocars for the medical manufacturer. As components, our devices contribute high value through overall quality including unsurpassed sharpness, smoothness and cleanliness, freedom from manufacturing defects and corrosion, outstanding appearance and reasonable prices. All of our products are manufactured to our customer’s specifications and require additional components, packaging and sterilization before they are ready for distribution or sale to doctors or hospitals.

In addition to wound drainage trocars, the company manufactures aluminum and stainless-steel products such as laparoscopic trocars, Steinmann pins, K-wires, obturators, tunnelers, introducers, passers, guide pins, bone drills, special suture needles, and cannula/trocar assemblies. The company also offers prototyping services for product development.

Venture Capital Firm

Consulting Services

Fasken Martineau is a full-service international law firm with offices in all major cities in Canada, as well as London, Paris and Johannesburg. Our Life Sciences team (comprising regulatory, licensing,  IP protection and litigation, outsourcing, corporate, corporate financing and tax practitioners) works with businesses across the life sciences spectrum at various stages of growth. Our clients include medical devices companies, multinational and specialty pharmaceutical businesses, and biotechnology companies.  Our medical devices team has earned international recognition, and has strong technical capabilities in all medical disciplines as well as extensive experience in all aspects of medical devices regulation in Canada and Europe.

With over $17 billion invested, GE Capital, Healthcare Financial Services is a premier provider of capital and services to the healthcare industry, with investments in more than 40 sub-sectors including senior housing, hospitals, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices. Our team of professionals provides deep industry expertise to create business and financial solutions tailored to meet the individual needs of our customers.  For more information, visit www.gecapital.com/healthcare

Health Advances LLC is a strategy consulting firm specializing in market assessment, product positioning, and growth strategies for medical devices worldwide. We help management focus technologies on the most productive applications and develop sales and marketing strategies (including pricing and reimbursement tactics) to maximize revenues. The firm has 70 professionals with strong clinical and business backgrounds based in Boston and San Francisco. Through 20 years of experience, including over 1,500 projects, it has built a specialized Knowledge Management infrastructure including a virtual panel of several thousand clinicians, thought leaders and payers. 25% of the firm's work supports JVs and M&A.

Research and private equity specialists in orthopedics

As a small firm HillCo HEALTH is able to successfully and seamlessly integrate their significant combined experiences to develop sound strategies and support clients through the planning stage all the way through the implementation and execution of product launch and thereafter. HillCo HEALTH has a particular excellence in business strategy and advocacy work with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) at the local level, the nation's top commercial payers, and building again off of our experiences and relationships, state Medicaid agencies. They combine  their significant policy and allied development background and experience with a strong understanding of the operational nature of the coding and reimbursement processes across payers to achieve success with bread and butter reimbursement issues like coding, market access issues, business to business or business to government opportunities, or due diligence for both their client companies and organizations in venture capital or private equity. Each of their principals has walked in the shoes of those they now seek to influence or support. All of their principals are from government or the private sector working in, for, or regulating the clients we support - from CMS, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs/DMACs), State Medicaid, the White House, and private industry - biopharmaceutical, consulting, and managed care.

Hull Associates is a global government affairs and reimbursement consultancy, focused on medical device and diagnostics issues in the major markets outside of the United States. We specialize in managing the relationships that are critical to successful implementation of reimbursement and market access strategies. We focus with our clients on building their capabilities to manage and execute solid international reimbursement strategies. Hull Associates successfully manages all dimensions of reimbursement, from understanding the technical aspects of payment systems to leveraging maximum political advantage of key stakeholder interests. Our firm delivers fully integrated support to maximize market outcomes for medical device clients, from dossier preparation to sales force trainings and coalition building. Seasoned medical device consultants in all major markets of the Globe. Providing reimbursement analysis, market forecasting, pricing studies and lobbying support in all the major markets.

Healthcare advisory and financial services firm

The medical device industry in Georgia is thriving, bolstered by the presence of outstanding educational and research resources. The joint program between Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology has been ranked #2 nationally in biomedical engineering degree programs.

The Metro Atlanta Chamber has determined that there are over 200 companies and organizations focusing on the research, development, commercialization or manufacturing of products used for medical purposes in patients, in diagnosis, therapy or surgery.

From industry pioneers like C.R. Bard and Stryker to innovative start-ups like CardioMEMS and Given Imaging, metro Atlanta has a wide range of medical devices companies.

For more information about Atlanta's Bioscience and Health IT industry contact:  David Hartnett at: 404-586-8433 or by email at dhartnett@macoc.com or visit us at www.bioscience.metroatlantachamber.com.

Minnetronix is a medical device outsourcing company, specializing in the design, manufacturing and support of electronics-based medical devices. Minnetronix’ experienced engineers and manufacturing teams provide expertise on a wide range of Class II and Class III medical equipment, such as cardiovascular systems, point-of-care diagnostic instruments, therapeutic devices, implantable devices, and monitoring equipment. Minnetronix has completed more than 100 development and manufacturing projects for more than 75 different medical device companies that range in size from small start-ups to large established firms. Minnetronix is ISO 13485:2003-certified and is an FDA-registered contract manufacturer.

Motorola Solutions is a leading provider of mission-critical communication products and services for enterprise and government customers. Our comprehensive family of OEM technology enables healthcare technology manufacturers to offer solutions that enable their customers to monitor, manage and capture critical information.  From component scan engine technology that easily integrates into your design to private labeled wireless and mobile computing solutions with your specifications and brand logo, our OEM portfolio lets you deliver solutions your customers can count on, while reducing your costs and time-to-market. Motorola Solutions trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker "MSI." To learn more, visit www.motorolasolutions.com/OEM or click here to communicate with a Motorola representative directly.

Engineering / Design / Product Development