I'll chime in on this. I love sales reps or marketing people that like to chime in on R&D. Mr. Homework, have you ever submitted a 510k? Do you know what the FDA requires? Are you trying to sound intelligent? Do you know what substanital equivalence is? Are you familiar with statistical confidence limits? Do you know your head from you ass? It takes surprising little test data to get a device approved. The good companies do exceedingly more testing than is required by the FDA. Please don't knock others under the illusion you know something.
Second, you may be right that it is efficient but I wouldn't say because a company spent $525MM its a model that works. Read the business section of a newspaper to find out that companies make bad purchases/decisions. That's a little pearl of wisdom for you to learn now. And the reason no R&D money is spent on reprocessing is because the investment was with the OEM, not the reprocessor. The reprocessor doesn't know shit about the device, they can only evaluate it side by side with the new device to demonstrate substantial equivalence with whichever tests they believe will transfer to surgical performance. But since they didn't invest in R&D, they may not have the best picture of that.
Finally, efficiant and monry aren't words.
If you pay full price for a new car, do you want it made of refurbished parts? Like refurbished products, let's discount procedures to the patients & insurance companies for those procedures done with reprocessed devices. Anyone willing to purchase any used retail product at full/new price, please reply...I have lots to sell....
