Number: RL33981
Title: Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act (MDUFMA) Reauthorization
Authors: Erin D. Williams, Domestic Social Policy Division 
Abstract: Unless Congress acts to reauthorize it, the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) authority to collect user fees under the Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act (MDUFMA; P.L. 107-250) and, by reference, FDA's obligation to meet related performance goals, will expire on October 1, 2007. According to the President's budget request, in FY2008, funds from a reauthorized MDUFMA would account for an estimated $47.5 million and 200 full-time equivalent employees (FTEs). This would comprise 16.6% of FDA's medical device review budget authority and 13.0% of its medical device review-related FTEs. While these numbers and percentages are not as high as those projected for collection under a similar FDA user fee authority related to prescription drugs (pursuant to the Prescription Drug User Fee Act), they are significant.
Pages: 24
Date: July 12, 2007