Yesterday the Government released its response to the 16 recommendations made by Senate Community Affairs Reference Committee report: Pricing regulation associated with the Prostheses.

MTAA welcomes the report and has been working with Government to deliver reforms which improve patients access to the best medical devices in the private system. It is important Prostheses List (PL) reform and increased transparency is based on facts and not fiction when it comes to evidence.

Medical device makers recognise the need for reform of the Prostheses List but it needs to be based on the best data, according to CEO of the Medical Technology Association of Australia (MTAA), Ian Burgess.

Mr Burgess spoke with HealthDispatch in a week during which the MTAA released its own data on prostheses pricing and continues to argue with private health insurers over the extent and nature of reform.