GI Dynamics®, Inc. (ASX: GID), a medical technology company that has developed an innovative device to improve outcomes for patients with type 2 diabetes and obesity, continues to make progress toward full reimbursement in Germany. Germany is typically the second largest market for medical technology in the world and is a high priority country for GI Dynamics.
German hospitals have made significant legal progress against resistance to EndoBarrier® reimbursement. Recent court decisions reinforce the assertion that payers must support NUB1 new technology payments for EndoBarrier procedures.
An arbitration court ruling had denied NUB payments for Frankfurt Sachsenhausen Hospital based upon the argument that the available clinical evidence did not support the treatment efficacy of EndoBarrier. The state government of Hessen rejected this court ruling and confirmed that the Consensus Paper2 of three German medical societies was sufficient evidence to support NUB payment. This position paper outlines the efficacy of EndoBarrier in treating type 2 diabetes and obesity. The conclusions of the paper were publicly reinforced in a Statement by the German Diabetes Society in 2015.
“These legal victories underscore the strong clinical and healthcare system support for EndoBarrier. We appreciate that the hospitals and court system are willing to work through the facts and support the correct administration of NUB new technology payments,” said Scott Schorer, President and CEO of GI Dynamics.
“Multiple hospital systems have taken the time-consuming action of advocating strongly for EndoBarrier reimbursement. These legal actions, together with strong combined consensus support from the German Diabetes Association
(“DDG”), the German Society for General and Visceral Surgery (“DGAV”), and the German Society for Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (“DGVS”) underscore the significance of EndoBarrier as a unique treatment option for patients suffering from type 2 diabetes and obesity,” said Schorer.
1 “NUB”: Neue Untersuchungs- und Behandlungsmethoden“, in German, or: New Diagnostic and Treatment Methods. The correct wording translated from German: “additional payments for new diagnostic and treatment methods (NUB)”.
2 Position Paper of Scientific Societies for Recommended Usage of Endoscopic Biliodigestive Diversion in Germany – German Diabetes Association (DDG) / German Society for General and Visceral Surgery (DGAV) / German Society for Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (DGVS)
About GI Dynamics
GI Dynamics, Inc. (ASX: GID) is the
developer of EndoBarrier, the first endoscopically delivered device
therapy approved for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity.
EndoBarrier is approved and commercially available in multiple countries
outside the United States. EndoBarrier is not approved for
sale in the United States and is limited by federal law to
investigational use only in the United States. Founded in 2003, GI
Dynamics is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. For more
information, please visit www.gidynamics.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
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forward-looking statements concerning our development and
commercialization plans; our potential revenues and revenue growth,
costs, excess inventory, profitability, and financial performance; our
ability to obtain reimbursement for our products; our clinical trials
and associated regulatory submissions and approvals; the number and
location of commercial centers offering the EndoBarrier; and our
intellectual-property position. These forward-looking statements are
based on the current estimates and expectations of future events by the
management of GI Dynamics, Inc. as of the date of this announcement and
are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause
actual results to differ materially and adversely from those indicated
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uncertainties include, but are not limited to, risks associated with the
consequences of terminating the ENDO trial and the possibility that
future clinical trials will not be successful or confirm earlier
results; risks associated with obtaining funding from third parties;
risks relating to the timing and costs of clinical trials, the timing of
regulatory submissions, and the timing, receipt, and maintenance of
regulatory approvals, the timing and amount of other expenses and the
timing and extent of third-party reimbursement; risks associated with
commercial product sales, including product performance; competition;
risks related to market acceptance of products; intellectual-property
risks; risks related to excess inventory; and risks related to
assumptions regarding the size of the available market, benefits of our
products, product pricing, timing of product launches, future financial
results, and other factors, including those described in our filings
with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Given these
uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these
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