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AMDR’s Action Alerts and Technical Tips offer awareness and advice on important industry developments that could impact your facility’s ability to deliver affordable, sustainable healthcare. Each Alert and Tip breaks down complex legal, regulatory, or market issues into clear guidance for hospital leadership, supply chain and procurement staff, and commercial reprocessors.
Whether it’s about anti-competitive conduct or a regulatory shift, you’ll find what’s at stake—and what to do next—right here.
AMDR’s contracting policy template (click here to download) helps health systems formalize their commitment to reprocessing, resist OEM interference, and embed fair contracting standards into procurement.
Protect your hospital’s right to reprocess—with a procurement policy built for the purpose. Includes customizable language, enforcement mechanisms, and legal precedent.
Hospitals rely on reprocessed devices to cut costs, reduce waste, and strengthen supply chains, but some OEMs undermine these goals through anti-reprocessing practices. But hospitals have the power to protect their freedom of choice in purchasing—through strong procurement policies.
AMDR’s Procurement Checklist to Preempt OEM Anti-Reprocessing Efforts helps procurement leaders in health systems and GPOs protect cost-saving reprocessing programs by embedding best practices and legal precedent in their procurement contracts and agreements.
Innovative Health, LLC v. Biosense Webster, Inc. is a watershed moment in the device reprocessing, healthcare, and medtech industries. The trial exposed the anticompetitive practices that Biosense Webster used to undermine AMDR-member, regulated reprocessing companies – and how these practices inflated healthcare costs, undermined hospital choice, and risked compromising device quality.
Visit our case webpage for more information about what happened – and what it means for healthcare.
Cost and Carbon Calculators
AMDR’s free CO₂ calculator estimates emissions reductions using peer-reviewed life cycle assessments of reprocessed vs. original SUDs. Hospitals can reduce Scope 3 emissions by up to 65% with reprocessed devices—stats like that help earn certification from the Joint Commission.
Try our calculator to see just how much you can help the climate by using reprocessed devices.
The NYU-Stern Center for Sustainable Business has created an Excel-based monetization template that captures the financial benefits of switching to reprocessed “single-use” medical devices.
Users can find the template midway through this page under ‘Decarbonization Case Studies & Models’ and are encouraged to enter data relating to their facility.
Key Reprocessing Endorsements and Reports
Healthcare Without Harm: “On the Road to Circular Healthcare – Reusing Medical Devices.”
Brussels Times: “Time to Move Away from Our ‘Disposable’ Health Care Culture.”
Health Affairs, Transforming The Medical Device Industry: Road Map To A Circular Economy
Lancet: How Medicine Becomes Trash; Disposability in Healthcare
Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Cost of Repairing Surgical Scissors
Six Steps to Make SUD Reprocessing More Effective
Maximize the Value of Your SUD Reprocessing Program
Sustainaility Scorecard: How to Implement and Profit from Unexpected Solutions