'The Top Line': The surprising multibillion-dollar medtech megadeals

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The top two medtech M&A deals of 2022—Microsoft’s purchase of Nuance Communications and Johnson & Johnson’s Abiomed takeover—made up a significant chunk of the year’s activity, with both weighing in at 11 figures. (Getty Images / Questex)

M&A plummeted in 2022 compared to the previous year. But some medtech companies were still able to pull off multibillion-dollar megadeals. We tracked it all on Fierce Medtech’s list of the 10 biggest M&A moves in 2022. In this episode, we discuss some high points from the roundup. 

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