February 12, 2015
Distributor Medline Industries Inc. was within its rights to back out of a contract after supplier Chemence Medical Products Inc. attempted to pass on to Medline the cost of the Affordable Care Act's medical device tax, a Georgia federal judge ruled Wednesday.
December 05, 2013
A Georgia federal judge ruled Wednesday that a medical product company cannot pass the cost of the Affordable Care Act's medical device tax on to a distributor that purchases its products under contract, saying a fair interpretation of the ACA indicates that the tax falls on manufacturers.