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Boston Scientific faces reimbursement hurdles for lung-searing asthma …
FierceMedicalDevices (press release) (registration) Boston Scientific ($BSX) had high hopes for its electrode-tipped catheter treatment for asthma after snatching up the system in 2010 through its $193.5 million purchase of Asthmatx. But the company is hitting a wall with the product as insurers … |
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A $20,000 Lung-Searing Asthma Treatment Disappoints in Sales – Bloomberg …
Bloomberg Two years ago, Christi Thompson's doctor put her under anesthesia, slipped an electrode-tipped catheter into her lungs, and used its hot end to sear the walls of her airways, thinning the enlarged muscle that cuts off a patient's air during an asthma … |
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A $20000 Lung-Searing Asthma Treatment Disappoints in Sales
Bloomberg Two years ago, Christi Thompson's doctor put her under anesthesia, slipped an electrode-tipped catheter into her lungs, and used its hot end to sear the walls of her airways, thinning the enlarged muscle that cuts off a patient's air during an asthma … A $20000 Lung-Searing Asthma Treatment Disappoints in Sales (1) |
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San Diego Source > News > A $20,000 Lung-Searing Asthma Treatment …
San Diego Source (subscription) Pressure is building on insurers after the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology gave its support for the procedure, bronchial thermoplasty, earlier this month, joining six other health organizations. About 26 million Americans have asthma. |
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