House E&C Unanimously Clears User Fee Package Despite Off-Label, Importation Scares

The House Energy & Commerce Committee sent its user fee package to the floor, 54-0, Wednesday (June 7), tacking on several new amendments that deal with medical imaging, device servicing, accessory classification, a medical device safety pilot program and a sense of Congress urging the HHS secretary to take administrative actions to lower drug costs. A deal between ranking Democrat Frank Pallone (NJ) and Republicans to leave off-label issues for another day kept the package bipartisan following earlier fears that...