9 March 2017 - The industry lobby group representing medical device manufacturers has rejected claims by a US manufacturer that Australians are missing out on cheaper implants, such as hips and pacemakers, because of a "corrupting" system of a "secret committee of lobby groups" operating like a criminal cartel.

The Medical Technology Association of Australia does not represent Applied Medical – the company that unsuccessfully sued the federal government to offer Australians cheaper medical devices than the current "prostheses list" allows – and says the US company's claims in a submission to a Senate inquiry into the industry are wrong.

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