Supply Chain

By analyzing and optimizing the ways that supplies are delivered to a facility, supply chain leaders can begin to cut waste, save money and ensure clinical staff have the products they need.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has paid Fillakit — a small company formed in May that operates out of a Houston suburb — $7.3 million since May to supply it with test tubes for COVID-19 testing. Instead of receiving standard…

The U.S. government shifted control of the strategic national stockpile back to HHS after  giving control to the Federal Emergency Management Agency in March, The Washington Post reported. 

A respiratory therapist who worked at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Seattle was charged June 17 with theft of government property for allegedly stealing respiratory equipment from the hospital and selling it on eBay. 

Ten hospitals and health systems posted job listings for supply chain expertise in the last week:

The U.S. has made significant strides to expand COVID-19 testing since the pandemic began, and testing remains critical to tracking the spread of the virus. But the U.S. may face another shortage of tests if there is a second wave…

Johnson & Johnson and Zimmer Biomet are among the medical device companies that Moody's Investors Service expects to be most negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, MedTech Dive reported. 

3M filed a lawsuit in a California federal court alleging an Amazon seller defrauded customers by charging "grossly inflated" prices for fake, defective and damaged respirator products. 

Amid a lack of federal regulation of lab charges, a diagnostic lab in Texas has charged insurers as much as $2,315 for the same COVID-19 test that costs $100 elsewhere, The New York Times reported. 

As drugmakers race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, a shortage of medical glass needed to make vials to contain the vaccine may delay when the public gets it, The Wall Street Journal reported.