NBA legend, Bill Walton, leads Med-Tech delegation to help fight the Medical Device Tax

NBA legend Bill Walton leads med-tech delegation to Capitol Hill (Mass Device)

The medical device industry unleashes one of its best weapons on the congress: Patients.

Bill Walton might be the medical device industry's best customer.
The 59-year-old former NBA player and basketball legend has had 36 orthopedic procedures, starting with his first surgery at 13 years old.
But it was a spinal fusion surgery in 2009, known as a minimally disruptive XLIF procedure, that turned his life around and made him an evangelist both for San Diego, Calif.-based NuVasive Inc.(NSDQ:NUVA) and the med-tech i...


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