Header: FDA finalized its LDT rule around March 1. Many meetings have been scheduled via Office of Management and Budget.
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FDA finalized its LDT rule around March 1 - original blog here.
OMB has scheduled fourteen publicly-listed meetings. If available, the listings include collateral like PDFs submitted.
https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eom12866SearchResults?pubId=&rin=0910-AI85&viewRule=true
March 18, 2024
ADLM (Assoc Dx Lab Med; former AACC) (4 documents including a 58 page Hyman Phelps public comment that the LDT rule is on shaky legal ground)
March 19, 2024
AMP (Assoc Molec Pathol) (2 documents, including a 19 page deck and a 40-page 2010 report on FDA and innovation)
March 20, 2024
ARUP (3 documents)
March 21, 2024
ACMG (Amer Coll Med Genet) (2 documents)
March 22, 2024
Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), (six documents)
April 1, 2024
ACLA (Amer Clin Lab Assoc) (one document, letter to OMB, 4pp)
April 3, 2024
AHA (Amer Hosp Assoc)
April 3, 2024
AdvaMed
April 4, 2024
Childrens' Hospital Association
April 4, 2024
Coalition for Iinnovative Laboratory Testing
(Also strongly opposed VALID Act)
Associatioin of Pathology Chairs
April 8, 2024
Natera Inc
April 11, 2024
Amer Soc Microbiol (ASM)
(Many pathogen tests = LDTs)
April 12, 2024
Coalition for 21st Century Medicine (C21CM)
April 15, 2024
"CRD Associates"
April 18, 2024
College of American Pathologists (CAP)
April 19, 2024
Duke University
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