−Removed: Our fiscal year
−Removed: ends on March 31 of each calendar year.
−Removed: Each reference to a fiscal year in this Report, refers to the fiscal year ended March
−Removed: 31 of the calendar year indicated (for example, fiscal 2021 refers to the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021).
−Removed: Unless the context
−Removed: requires otherwise, references to “we,”
−Removed: “us,”
−Removed: “our,”
−Removed: and the “Company”
−Removed: Modular Medical, Inc.
−Removed: and its consolidated subsidiary.
+Added: Our fiscal year ends
+Added: on March 31 of each calendar year.
+Added: Each reference to a fiscal year in this Report, refers to the fiscal year ended March 31 of the calendar
+Added: year indicated (for example, fiscal 2022 refers to the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022).
+Added: Unless the context requires otherwise,
+Added: references to “we,” “us,” “our,” and the “Company” refer to Modular Medical, Inc.
+Added: its consolidated subsidiary.
We are a development
−Removed: stage, medical device company focused on the design, development, and eventual commercialization of an innovative insulin pump
−Removed: to address shortcomings and problems represented by the relatively limited adoption of currently available pumps for insulin-requiring
−Removed: people with diabetes.
−Removed: typically classified as either type 1 or type 2:
−Removed: · Type 1 diabetes is characterized
−Removed: by the body’s nearly complete inability to produce insulin.
−Removed: It is frequently diagnosed during childhood or adolescence.
−Removed: Individuals with type 1 diabetes require daily insulin therapy to survive.
−Removed: · Type 2 diabetes represents
−Removed: over 90% of all individuals diagnosed with diabetes and is characterized by the body’s inability to either properly utilize
−Removed: insulin or produce enough insulin.
−Removed: Initially, many people with type 2 diabetes attempt to manage their diabetes with improvements
−Removed: in diet and exercise and/or the use of oral medications and/or injection of glucagon-like peptide-1, or GLP-1, drugs.
−Removed: as their diabetes advances, patients progress to require insulin therapies, such as once-daily long-acting insulin, and, ultimately,
−Removed: intensified mealtime rapid-acting insulin therapy.
−Removed: the primary source of energy for cells, must be maintained at certain levels in the blood in order to permit optimal cell function
−Removed: In people with diabetes, blood glucose levels fluctuate between very high, a condition known as hyperglycemia, and
−Removed: very low, a condition called hypoglycemia.
−Removed: Hyperglycemia can lead to serious long-term complications, including blindness, kidney
−Removed: disease, nervous system disease, occlusive vascular diseases, lower-limb amputation, stroke and cardiovascular disease, and death.
−Removed: Hypoglycemia can lead to confusion or loss of consciousness, often requiring a visit to the emergency room or, in certain cases,
−Removed: result in seizures, coma, and death.
−Removed: The International
−Removed: Diabetes Federation, or IDF, estimates that, in 2019, approximately 460 million people had diabetes worldwide, and, that by 2045,
−Removed: this number will increase to 700 million people.
−Removed: According to the Seagrove 2021 Diabetes Blue Book, approximately 27 million people
−Removed: in the United States have diagnosed diabetes, of which type 1 diabetes accounts for approximately 7%, or approximately 1.8 million
−Removed: All people with type 1 diabetes, which is our primary market, require daily insulin.
−Removed: According to the Seagrove 2021 Diabetes
−Removed: Blue Book, approximately 18% of people with type 2 diabetes in the United States, or 4.7 million people, require insulin (basal
−Removed: alone represent 3.1 million and basal plus mealtime represent 1.6 million) to manage their diabetes.
−Removed: In this Report, we refer
−Removed: to people with type 1 diabetes and people with type 2 diabetes who require mealtime insulin as “insulin-requiring people
−Removed: with diabetes.”
−Removed: Currently, there
−Removed: are two primary therapies available for insulin-requiring people with diabetes:
−Removed: multiple daily insulin injections directly into
−Removed: the body through syringes or insulin pens, referred to as Multiple Daily Injection, or MDI therapy, or the use of an insulin pump
−Removed: to deliver a continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion, or CSII therapy, into the body.
−Removed: Generally, CSII therapy is considered to
−Removed: provide a number of advantages over MDI therapy, primarily an improvement in glycemic control, as measured by certain diabetes
−Removed: management tests.
−Removed: Use of CSII has proven to improve clinical outcomes while, importantly, reducing emergency room visits associated
−Removed: with low glucose.
−Removed: Notwithstanding
−Removed: these advantages, the difficulty in use resulting from the complexity and cumbersome design of available insulin pumps, as well
−Removed: as high and often prohibitive costs for both the patient and insurance provider, has resulted not only in dissatisfaction among
−Removed: many existing pump users, but also has severely limited the adoption rate of insulin pumps by a segment of the diabetes population,
−Removed: who we refer to in this Report as “almost pumpers.”
−Removed: define almost pumpers as persons with insulin-requiring diabetes who are aware of pumps and the potential benefits but, because
−Removed: of the shortcomings, cost, and complexity-of-use problems prevalent in available insulin pumps, continue to receive their daily
−Removed: insulin through MDI therapy.
−Removed: target market for our insulin pump is the almost pumper population located in the United States.
−Removed: upon our knowledge of the diabetes industry and information available and/or obtained by us, we believe that an estimated 31%
−Removed: of Americans with type 1 diabetes use insulin pump therapy and an estimated 30% of Americans with type 1 diabetes are whom we
−Removed: classify as almost pumpers.
−Removed: The remainder of the population treat their diabetes via MDI therapy.
−Removed: and development team is led by Paul DiPerna, our chairman, chief executive officer, and our largest shareholder.
−Removed: over 30 years of high-level experience in developing, designing, and obtaining U.S.
−Removed: Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, approval
−Removed: for and managing the commercialization of medical devices, including consumer and hospital-based insulin pumps, while working
−Removed: for such industry leading medical device companies as Baxter Healthcare, Inc., or Baxter, a supplier of drug therapies and associated
−Removed: pumping technologies, and Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc., or Tandem, a leading supplier of pumping technology to the existing insulin
−Removed: pumping marketplace, Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna was the founder of Tandem and designer of its initial product.
−Removed: Insulin Pump Prototype
−Removed: designed and developed working prototypes of our low-cost insulin pump that are now undergoing the testing required to submit
−Removed: for FDA approval.
−Removed: During this period, we have, and continue to devote, substantial time and resources to better understand the
−Removed: needs and preferences of almost pumpers to enable us to modify and refine our insulin pump to the needs and preferences of this
−Removed: target market.
−Removed: To help us better understand their needs and preferences, we obtained information about our target market and their
−Removed: care givers through one on one interviews, human factors testing, on-line and in person surveys, and focus groups at industry
−Removed: related tradeshows and conferences.
−Removed: Pre-Commercialization
−Removed: While we have
−Removed: substantially completed the general engineering and mechanical aspects of our insulin pump prototype, prior to commercializing,
−Removed: we still must successfully complete a number of material steps including:
−Removed: · Continue to modify, refine
−Removed: and finalize our prototype so that it meets:
−Removed: o the general needs and preferences
−Removed: of our almost-pumper target market based upon our knowledge of the diabetes industry and information available and/or obtained
−Removed: by us from almost pumpers and their caregivers;
−Removed: o the general guidelines of
−Removed: third-party payors, private and public insurance companies, preferred provider organizations and other managed care providers
−Removed: with particular focus on the guidelines established by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS which administrates
−Removed: the United States Medicare program, or Medicare.
−Removed: To assist us in making such modifications and refinements, we have retained independent
−Removed: consultants to focus on ensuring that our product satisfies the existing coverage and reimbursement criteria of such third-party
−Removed: · Continue to work closely
−Removed: with our regulatory consultants to complete, finalize and file our submission to the FDA for 510(k) clearance and all other documentation
−Removed: necessary to obtain approval of our insulin pump.
−Removed: This will include:
−Removed: o engaging the FDA in a pre-submission
−Removed: conference to ensure that we understand and meet the FDA’s requirements, expectations and standards with regard to approval
−Removed: of our product.
−Removed: At this meeting, our team, including our FDA regulatory consultant, received FDA comments and guidance regarding
−Removed: our proposed submission during the pre-market notification period for 510(k) clearance (including any suggested modifications
−Removed: to the device description, indications for use or summary of supporting data contained in the notification);
−Removed: o preparing and ensuring that
−Removed: our pre-market notification, which will be part of our FDA submission, demonstrates that our insulin pump, which is substantially
−Removed: equivalent to an insulin pump previously cleared by the FDA and legally marketed to the public;
−Removed: o preparing our submission
−Removed: to the FDA, to include all of the appropriate results of tests (relating to, among other things, user effectiveness, sterility,
−Removed: pump efficiency and shipping compatibility) demonstrating safety and efficacy of our insulin pump in satisfaction of the mandates
−Removed: of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act, or the FDCA, including requirements with regard to registration and listing, labeling,
−Removed: medical device reporting and good manufacturing practices.
−Removed: We currently expect to make this submission in the fourth calendar
−Removed: quarter of 2021.
−Removed: · Refine our manufacturing
−Removed: process during the submission process to identify and select a manufacturer of our insulin pump through a competitive bidding
−Removed: process, as we prepare for our product introduction;
−Removed: · Take such actions, if any,
−Removed: as may be required by the FDA as a condition to granting approval and providing 510(k) clearance for our insulin pump;
−Removed: · Hire and retain appropriate
−Removed: sales and marketing personnel to develop, implement and launch a promotional campaign for our insulin pump substantially focused
−Removed: on our target market.
−Removed: medical device attempting to enter and successfully compete with existing products in an established and competitive marketplace,
−Removed: we will face significant hurdles to accomplish the above steps to commercialization including:
−Removed: · Obtaining FDA 510(k) clearance
−Removed: to market and sell our insulin pump to the public;
−Removed: · Obtaining any other FDA-required
−Removed: approvals with regard to our product, as required by the FDCA;
−Removed: · Educating endocrinologists,
−Removed: physician’s assistants, nurse practitioners and nurse educators, who typically prescribe pump usage, and certified diabetes
−Removed: educators and dieticians, who provide education and guidance to diabetes patients, as to what we believe to be the superior qualities
−Removed: of our product;
−Removed: · Demonstrating to select general
−Removed: practitioners, who have historically been skeptical of the heightened support inherent in insulin pumps, our product’s ease
−Removed: of use and convenience;
−Removed: · Ensuring that our final product
−Removed: does, in fact, meet the needs of almost-pumpers;
−Removed: · Overcoming the historic obstacles
−Removed: and reluctance of almost-pumpers to using insulin pumps to treat their diabetes;
−Removed: · Ensuring that third party
−Removed: payors agree to cover all or a substantial portion of the purchase price and recurring costs of the use of our insulin pump.
−Removed: that there are a number of shortcomings and issues with currently available insulin pumps that prevent a substantial number of
−Removed: people who require insulin on a daily basis from choosing an insulin pump to treat their diabetes.
−Removed: We believe, that by tailoring
−Removed: our insulin pump to address such factors, we can expand the scope and adoption rate of insulin pump usage.
−Removed: We believe that to
−Removed: achieve broader market acceptance, an insulin pump must be easier to learn to use, be less time consuming to operate, more intuitive
−Removed: to both patients and physicians, and meet the standards for coverage by insurance providers so that co-payments required
−Removed: from patients are affordable and the hurdles to insurance coverage are significantly reduced.
−Removed: the more prominent issues are:
+Added: stage medical device company focused on the design, development, and commercialization of an innovative insulin pump using modernized
+Added: technology to increase pump adoption in the diabetes marketplace.
+Added: Through the creation of a novel two-part patch pump, our MODD1 product
+Added: candidate, or MODD1, we seek to fundamentally alter the trade-offs between cost and complexity and access to the higher standards of
+Added: care that presently available insulin pumps provide.
+Added: By simplifying and streamlining the user experience from introduction, prescription,
+Added: reimbursement, training and day-to-day use, we seek to expand the wearable insulin delivery device market beyond the highly motivated
+Added: “super users” and expand the category into the mass market.
+Added: The product candidate seeks to serve both the Type 1 and the
+Added: rapidly growing especially in terms of device adoption, type 2 diabetes markets.
+Added: Differentiation
+Added: We believe that there
+Added: are a number of shortcomings and issues with currently available insulin pumps that prevent a substantial number of people who require
+Added: insulin on a daily basis from choosing an insulin pump to treat their diabetes.
+Added: We believe, that by tailoring our insulin pump to address
+Added: such factors, we can expand the scope and adoption rate of insulin pump usage.
+Added: We believe that to achieve broader market acceptance,
+Added: an insulin pump must be easier to learn to use, be less time consuming to operate, more intuitive to both patients and physicians, and
+Added: meet the standards for coverage by insurance providers so that co-payments required from patients are affordable and the hurdles to insurance
+Added: coverage are significantly reduced.
+Added: Among the more
+Added: prominent issues are:
· Complexity :
−Removed: Many existing
−Removed: pumps are highly complex and require significant technical expertise to use effectively.
−Removed: We believe such pumps were designed for
−Removed: “super users,”
−Removed: who have high levels of motivation and technical competence.
−Removed: The complexity of pumps proves
−Removed: daunting to less technically inclined users.
+Added: Many existing pumps are highly complex and require significant technical expertise to use
+Added: We believe such pumps were designed for “super users,” who have
+Added: high levels of motivation and technical competence.
+Added: The complexity of pumps proves daunting
+Added: to less technically inclined users.
· Cumbersome :
−Removed: that a majority of existing pumps are bulky and difficult to manage, in many cases requiring additional equipment to introduce
−Removed: a catheter to the patient’s body and up to 48 inches of tubing, which must be replaced frequently, to connect the catheter
−Removed: This requires users to carry spare parts and other equipment adding to the encumbrance of using the pump.
−Removed: Costs associated
−Removed: with insulin pump therapy are high and can be prohibitive, especially for those on fixed or limited incomes.
−Removed: These costs vary
−Removed: by pump, but multi-thousand-dollar upfront payments, often with substantial co-payments in addition to possible daily co-payments
+Added: We believe that a majority of existing pumps are bulky and difficult to manage, in many cases
+Added: requiring additional equipment to introduce a catheter to the patient’s body and up
+Added: to 48 inches of tubing, which must be replaced frequently, to connect the catheter to a pump.
+Added: This requires users to carry spare parts and other equipment adding to the difficulty of
+Added: using the pump.
+Added: Costs associated with insulin pump therapy are high and can be prohibitive, especially
+Added: for those on fixed or limited incomes.
+Added: These costs vary by pump, but multi-thousand-dollar
+Added: upfront payments, often with substantial co-payments in addition to possible daily co-payments
on consumables, can easily place current pumps out of reach for patients.
−Removed: This makes insurance providers hesitant to pay for them,
−Removed: leading to limited or absent reimbursement/coverage and high hurdles for patients to gain access.
−Removed: has substantial knowledge of the diabetes space and experience in developing, winning approval for, and bringing insulin pumps
−Removed: Based on this experience, we believe that our innovative insulin pump, using a new and proprietary method of pumping
−Removed: insulin, can address most or all of these shortcomings.
−Removed: It provides a state-of-the-art insulin pump capable of both basal (steady
−Removed: flow) and bolus (mealtime dosing) insulin disbursement.
+Added: This makes insurance
+Added: providers hesitant to pay for them, leading to limited or absent reimbursement/coverage and
+Added: high hurdles for patients to gain access.
+Added: Consumer electronics devices have evolved in both form and function.
+Added: pumps have not experienced similar progress.
+Added: We believe that consumers will be more receptive
+Added: of products designed with the user experience in mind and that many have low tolerance for
+Added: complex, difficult procedures for use and maintenance of products.
+Added: mechanism limitations :
+Added: Traditional pumps generally utilize a syringe and plunger mechanism
+Added: to deliver insulin.
+Added: We believe this design limits the ability to reduce the size of the pump,
+Added: and also potentially exposes the user to the unintended delivery of the full volume of insulin
+Added: within the pump, which can cause hypoglycemia or death.
+Added: We believe that the fear of adverse
+Added: health events due to technical malfunctions related to traditional pump mechanism limitations
+Added: deters the adoption of insulin pump therapy.
+Added: Our team has substantial
+Added: knowledge of the diabetes industry and experience in developing, obtaining regulatory authorization for, and bringing insulin pumps to
+Added: Based on this experience, we believe that our innovative insulin pump, using a new and proprietary method of pumping insulin,
+Added: can address most or all of these shortcomings.
+Added: It provides a state-of-the-art insulin pump capable of both basal (steady flow) and bolus
+Added: (mealtime dosing) insulin disbursement.
It also has been designed considering a natural migration path to multi-chamber/multi-liquid
pumps, potentially offering an exciting array of new therapies to patients with diabetes and other conditions.
−Removed: Our goal is to
−Removed: become the leader in expanding access to insulin pump technology to a wider portion of diabetes sufferers and provide not just
−Removed: care for the super users, but “diabetes care for the rest of us.”
−Removed: our founder, chairman and chief executive officer, chief financial officer, secretary and treasurer, began his career in approximately
−Removed: 1980 as a mechanical design engineer in the automated test equipment industry before moving in approximately 1989 to a start-up
−Removed: company in the blood separation sciences industry.
−Removed: This company was acquired in approximately 1991 by Baxter.
−Removed: Following such acquisition,
−Removed: he became employed by Baxter and held various positions for approximately 12 years.
−Removed: While at Baxter, Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna led significant
−Removed: projects and initiatives, including leading a team of approximately 50 engineers in developing equipment in the blood separation
−Removed: sciences industry.
−Removed: In approximately 1996, he was promoted to General Manager of Baxter’s business development group to identify
−Removed: expansion opportunities in the medical device industry for Baxter.
−Removed: While holding such position, Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna led a team of approximately
−Removed: 20 personnel responsible for researching custom orthopedics, digital dentistry, and rapid prototyping.
−Removed: In such role, one of his
−Removed: assignments was identifying opportunities in the diabetes industry.
−Removed: As a result, Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna developed an expertise and knowledge
−Removed: and became well known in the diabetes industry and led attempts by Baxter to acquire three then-leading insulin pump manufacturers.
−Removed: DiPerna, using his knowledge and experience acquired at Baxter in the diabetes industry and in the “pump”
−Removed: product business in particular, left Baxter and founded what subsequently became Tandem.
−Removed: While at Tandem, Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna held various
−Removed: positions, including member of the board of directors, chief executive officer, and chief technology officer.
−Removed: Tandem is a medical
−Removed: device company that designs, develops and commercializes products for people with insulin-dependent diabetes.
−Removed: Tandem was founded
−Removed: DiPerna to design, develop and commercialize a “state of the art”
−Removed: user-friendly insulin pump.
−Removed: He was the person
−Removed: primarily responsible for the design concept and development of Tandem’s insulin pump, which, after commercial introduction,
−Removed: it is estimated by Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna such insulin pump had a quick ramp up to 5,000 purchasers.
−Removed: DiPerna resigned from his
−Removed: executive officer position and board seat at Tandem and continued to advise the company through 2013.
−Removed: He co-invented a medical
−Removed: device used for blood-borne infection control called the “Curos Cap.”
−Removed: Curos Cap was owned by a private company which
−Removed: was acquired by 3M Corporation in 2015 for $150,000,000.
−Removed: Thereafter, Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna founded Fuel Source Partners, LLC to incubate
−Removed: early stage medical-device products and accumulate technical talent.
−Removed: One of such proposed products was spun-out to Quasuras, Inc.,
−Removed: or Quasuras, in March 2015, which we acquired in July 2017.
−Removed: DiPerna holds a number of issued and pending patents and is a
−Removed: member of the American Diabetes Association.
−Removed: DiPerna received a Master’s in Engineering Management from Northeastern
−Removed: University and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Lowell.
−Removed: From January 2017 until July 2019, Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna served
−Removed: at National Cardiac Incorporated as its Chief Executive Officer and as a board member to leverage their technology in the cardiac
−Removed: monitoring space.
−Removed: Generally, there
−Removed: are two primary therapies used by people with insulin-requiring diabetes:
−Removed: insulin injections and insulin pumps.
−Removed: Each is designed
−Removed: to supplement or replace the insulin-producing function of the pancreas.
−Removed: MDI therapy involves the use of syringes or insulin pens
−Removed: to inject insulin into the body, as required.
−Removed: Insulin pumps are used to provide a steady flow of insulin (often referred to as
−Removed: continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion or basal rate insulin) and bursts of mealtime insulin (boluses).
−Removed: Insulin pump therapy
−Removed: has been shown to provide people with insulin-requiring diabetes with numerous advantages compared to MDI therapy.
−Removed: flow of insulin and the easier application of mealtime boluses has been shown by numerous clinical studies to result in lower
−Removed: HbA1c (a measure of the amount of glucose in the bloodstream) when compared to MDI therapy.
−Removed: This results in lower rates of hospitalization
−Removed: and a reduction in overall adverse events for people with diabetes.
−Removed: that the greater efficacy of pumps compared to MDI makes insulin pumps a more optimal choice for persons in managing diabetes,
−Removed: but that the shortcomings and challenges around existing pumps have held back adoption rates.
−Removed: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, 2020 National Diabetes Statistics Report in the United States, in
−Removed: 2018, 88 million people, or 1 out of 3 adults, had pre-diabetes, approximately 27 million people had been diagnosed with diabetes
−Removed: and an additional 7 million people had diabetes that was undiagnosed.
−Removed: The CDC also indicated that diabetes was the seventh leading
−Removed: cause of death in the United States in 2017, which according to the CDC, may be underreported.
−Removed: Diabetes was the leading cause
−Removed: of kidney failure, lower-limb amputations, and adult-onset blindness and represented more than $327 billion in medical costs in
+Added: Our goal is to become
+Added: the leader in expanding access to insulin pump technology to a wider portion of diabetes sufferers and provide not just care for the
+Added: super users, but “diabetes care for the rest of us.” We believe there is a substantial opportunity to penetrate the type
+Added: 2 MDI marketplace, whether through this new insulin pump or further simplification of pumps for the type 2 marketplace.
+Added: The MODD1 is a high-precision,
+Added: first-line pump that we believe represents the best choice for new pump patients because it is easy to afford, easy to learn, easy to
+Added: use, and has a revolutionary design and technology that enable precision with low-cost manufacture and high reproducibility.
+Added: Key features include:
+Added: parts - one reusable, one disposable - snap together to form the working system;
+Added: button interface, easy to learn and use;
+Added: reusable, 3-day disposable;
+Added: at any time from an adhesive bracket;
+Added: external controller required, no charging, no battery replacement;
+Added: profile, lighter weight.
+Added: A proprietary survey
+Added: of American healthcare payors representing 50 million covered lives (approximately one-third of U.S.
+Added: covered lives) performed for us
+Added: by industry leading survey firm ISA has demonstrated that payors are willing to grant equivalent or preferential coverage for a product
+Added: with this feature set at launch in exchange for rebates of approximately 20%.
+Added: These costs are built into all of our models.
+Added: Classifications and Therapies
+Added: Diabetes is typically
+Added: classified as either type 1 or type 2:
+Added: 1 diabetes is an auto-immune condition characterized by the body’s nearly complete inability to produce insulin.
+Added: It is frequently
+Added: diagnosed during childhood or adolescence.
+Added: Individuals with type 1 diabetes require daily insulin therapy to survive.
+Added: 2 diabetes represents over 90% of all individuals diagnosed with diabetes and is characterized by the body’s inability to either
+Added: properly utilize insulin or produce sufficient insulin.
+Added: Initially, many people with type 2 diabetes attempt to manage their condition
+Added: with improvements in diet and exercise and/or the use of oral medications and/or injection of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) drugs.
+Added: However, as their diabetes advances, patients often progress to require insulin therapies such as once-daily long-acting insulin
+Added: and ultimately to intensified mealtime rapid-acting insulin therapy.
+Added: This represents an important portion of the diabetes
+Added: market with an estimated 1.6 million type 2 individuals with diabetes intensively treated with insulin currently in the United States
+Added: the primary source of energy for cells, must be maintained at certain levels in the blood in order to permit optimal cell function and
+Added: In people with diabetes, blood glucose levels are not well controlled and frequently become very high, a condition known as hyperglycemia,
+Added: and very low, a condition called hypoglycemia.
+Added: Hyperglycemia can lead to serious long-term complications, including blindness, kidney
+Added: disease, nervous system disease, occlusive vascular diseases, lower-limb amputation, stroke, cardiovascular disease, and death.
+Added: can lead to confusion or loss of consciousness, often requiring a visit to the emergency room or, in certain cases, result in seizures,
+Added: coma, and/or death.
+Added: All people with type
+Added: 1 diabetes, which is our primary market, require daily insulin.
+Added: According to the Seagrove 2021 Diabetes Blue Book, approximately 18%
+Added: of people with type 2 diabetes in the United States, or 4.7 million people, require insulin (basal alone represent 3.1 million and basal
+Added: plus mealtime represent 1.6 million) to manage their diabetes.
+Added: In this Report, we refer to people with type 1 diabetes and people with
+Added: type 2 diabetes who require mealtime insulin as “insulin-requiring people with diabetes.”
+Added: Currently, there are two primary therapies
+Added: available for insulin-requiring people with diabetes:
+Added: multiple daily insulin injections directly into the body through syringes or insulin
+Added: pens, referred to as Multiple Daily Injection, or MDI therapy, or the use of an insulin pump to deliver mealtime insulin boluses (single
+Added: dose) to help with glucose absorption after carbohydrate consumption and a continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion, or CSII therapy,
+Added: into the body.
+Added: Generally, CSII therapy is considered to provide a number of advantages over MDI therapy, primarily an improvement in
+Added: glycemic control, as measured by certain diabetes management tests such as hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) measure and more recently Time in Range
+Added: (TIR) where a continuous glucose measuring device is used to calculate this test.
+Added: Among other medical benefits, it has been demonstrated
+Added: that insulin pump use can decrease glucose variability, reduce the number of hypoglycemia, decrease the daily doses of insulin and reduce
+Added: the fear of hypoglycemia.
+Added: Notwithstanding
+Added: these advantages, the difficulty in use resulting from the complexity and cumbersome design of available insulin pumps as well as high
+Added: and often prohibitive costs for both the patient and insurance provider has resulted not only in dissatisfaction among many existing
+Added: pump users (fewer than half purchase a new pump after warranty expires per Seagrove Partners (estimate), but also has severely limited
+Added: the adoption rate of insulin pumps by a large segment of the MDI diabetes population, who we refer to in this Report as “Almost
+Added: We define Almost Pumpers
+Added: as insulin-requiring people with diabetes who are aware of pumps and their potential benefits but, because of past experience, pump shortcomings,
+Added: cost, complexity and time and learning required to adopt and utilize available insulin pumps, continue to receive their daily insulin
+Added: through MDI therapy.
+Added: Our initial focus for
+Added: our insulin pump is the almost pumper segment population located in the United States.
+Added: Our research, along
+Added: with marketplace data, estimates that 32% of Americans with type 1 diabetes use insulin pump therapy and 28% of Americans with type 1
+Added: diabetes (44% of those who currently utilize MDI) can be classified as having an interest in pump adoption and meeting the American Diabetes
+Added: Association guidelines of glucose control if their objections to the currently available suite of products can be overcome.
+Added: want to closely manage their glucose levels and incur the associated time and effort involved.
+Added: They are the Almost Pumpers.
+Added: We have developed
+Added: what we believe to be the most technologically advanced delivery system overcome the objections and provided motivation for this market.
+Added: We believe that there are four addressable hurdles to adoption:
+Added: the device needs to be easy to learn and to operate;
+Added: · Affordability:
+Added: we will focus on overcoming copay and insurance hurdles rather than leaving the “insurance
+Added: journey” to the clinician and patient;
+Added: · Accessibility
+Added: and Education:
+Added: we will seek to engage patients to sample this new technology by supplying
+Added: clinicians with free samples and simple training to allow people to see first-hand the typical
+Added: barriers to adoption that have been overcome;
+Added: where we will answer their questions and concerns during this diabetes experience.
+Added: We believe this conversion
+Added: process, engaging people to try and thereby receive the benefits of our technology will substantially increase adoption of insulin pumps
+Added: among both those with type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes who remain reliant upon multiple daily injections.
+Added: Diabetes is a disease that
+Added: appears throughout the world.
+Added: Therefore, we cannot segment the market by socioeconomics, education or level of care.
+Added: We intend to create
+Added: an insulin pump that appeals to all Almost Pumpers.
+Added: The International Diabetes
+Added: Federation, or IDF, estimates that, in 2019, approximately 460 million people were living with diabetes worldwide and, that by 2045,
+Added: this number will increase to approximately 700 million people.
+Added: An estimated 34 million
+Added: people in the United States live with diabetes.
+Added: Within this group, type 1 diabetes accounts for approximately 1.8 million people (7%
+Added: of total) with the remainder being type 2 diabetes.
+Added: However, of the people with type 2 diabetes about 1.6 million of them require intensive
+Added: insulin treatments to manage their diabetes.
+Added: This represents a large and growing market with the effects of diabetes accounting for roughly
+Added: 25% of all healthcare dollars spent annually in the United States.
+Added: the National Diabetes Health Care Provider Survey conducted by Seagrove Partners, approximately 25% of the 1.6 million highly insulin intensive type 2
+Added: diabetes have considered going “on pump.”
+Added: Insulin pumps have
+Added: been shown to provide a higher level of care for insulin dependent people with diabetes and result in better glycemic control, fewer
+Added: comorbidities, fewer trips to the emergency room, and higher overall quality of life.
+Added: They also result in lower overall costs to the
+Added: healthcare system, reducing typical expense per patient year from $27,195 to $16,992.
+Added: Despite these
+Added: benefits, only 1 in 3 (33%) of the 1.8 million Americans with type 1 diabetes and very few of the 1.6 million type 2 diabetes intensively
+Added: treated with insulin currently use an insulin pump, for a total of approximately 670,000 current users, with only a slow increase of
+Added: insulin pump use.
+Added: The remaining 68% of type 1 diabetes’ and virtually all of the type 2 diabetes’ rely on multiple daily
+Added: injections (MDI) for glucose control.
+Added: Decades of advances in technology advances have left these non-pumpers at a significant disadvantage
+Added: from a control perspective versus their “pumping” counterparts.
+Added: We have identified
+Added: a large segment of the market that we refer to as “Almost Pumpers.” Almost Pumpers are those insulin-requiring people with
+Added: diabetes (type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes) who feel that they would adopt the pump if it were less expensive, less time consuming,
+Added: less technically intimidating, and if there was no separate controller.
+Added: They represent approximately 32% of the type 1 diabetes market
+Added: correlating to a $1.9 billion growth opportunity.
+Added: Insulin pumps on the
+Added: market today require a substantial amount of time to manage the therapy, have high out of pocket costs that place these technologies
+Added: out of reach for a large part of the population, and are feature-heavy with complex systems that have hampered adoption and intimidated
+Added: The most commonly used insulin pumps today require extensive training and hours of daily management.
+Added: The average pump user
+Added: must go through 42 steps of setup and refill process every 72 hours to “stay on track.”
+Added: current reluctance to adopt the insulin pump has had serious consequences on the healthcare system.
+Added: In the United States, people
+Added: living with type 1 diabetes have struggled to attain glycemic targets.
+Added: A 2019 analysis of the large type 1 diabetes Exchange clinical
+Added: registry found that only 21% of U.S.
+Added: adults with type 1 diabetes achieved the ADA A1c goal (<7.0%).
+Added: Further, according to a
+Added: study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers found no significant improvements in diabetes care between 2005 and 2016,
+Added: with persistent gaps in care related to socioeconomic status.
+Added: The recent introduction
+Added: and rapid adoption of Abbott Labs’ Freestyle Libre, or the Libre, has made continuous glucose monitoring, or CGM, easier and more
+Added: affordable, expanding the product category, and doubling its size.
+Added: Now for the first time, there is an easy, less painful (i.e., no more
+Added: finger sticks) way for patients to have the data they need to understand more about their glucose levels and their insulin requirements.
+Added: Access to such data has motivated patients to ask their diabetes clinician how they can achieve better glycemic control and made them
+Added: more comfortable with using technology and wearables to treat their diabetes.
+Added: Pumps offer a clear pathway to better control and better
+Added: overall care.
+Added: We believe that the insulin pump market is ready for a similar transition as that experienced in the CGM space.
+Added: We believe our MODD1 pump
+Added: represents a new and better offering to assist and induce a wide variety of patients to make the transition and bridge the void to superior
+Added: control by becoming a “pumper.”
+Added: We believe the present
+Added: pump marketplace is approximately a $1.9 billion market, comprising approximately 33% of type 1 diabetes pumpers and a small group of
+Added: type 2 diabetes pumpers.
+Added: Seagrove Partners estimates that 28% of type 1 diabetes patients and 25% of type 2 diabetes patients would adopt
+Added: technology that was easier to use, access and pay for.
+Added: We believe the total addressable market approximates $3 billion, assuming revenue
+Added: of $4,128 per patient, per year.
+Added: We expect to spend approximately 15% of our total revenue on discounts and free samples to encourage
+Added: adoption of our pump product.
+Added: We are dedicated to
+Added: helping all people with diabetes gain access to high quality care.
+Added: We aim to help people with diabetes, especially Almost Pumpers and
+Added: the historically underserved communities, gain access to insulin pump technology by making it affordable and easy to use.
+Added: Care is at an Inflection Point
We believe that
−Removed: due to a number of factors, including the large consumption of processed foods and the growing obesity problem in the United States,
−Removed: the number of persons requiring daily administration of insulin will continue to grow at rapid rates.
−Removed: of persons with diabetes requiring daily insulin administration is our target market, and we believe our proposed product has
−Removed: the potential to substantially improve the day to day quality of life of such persons.
−Removed: The Opportunity
−Removed: We believe the
−Removed: insulin pump market is large and growing, but, generally, has been poorly served by existing products that have limited the adoption
−Removed: of insulin pumps.
−Removed: We believe an insulin pump having the correct mix of efficiency, reliability, features that are easy to understand
−Removed: and use, and offered at an affordable price point will drive a substantial percentage of “almost-pumpers”
−Removed: to use insulin
−Removed: pumps and persons currently using available, but less than optimal pumps, to switch to such a more desirable product.
−Removed: that such an insulin pump can improve glucose control, and, therefore, the user’s quality of life while substantially mitigating
−Removed: adverse diabetes-related health risks and many, if not all, of the challenges and shortcomings discussed herein.
−Removed: We believe there
−Removed: is a substantial opportunity to penetrate the type 2 MDI marketplace, whether through this new insulin pump or further simplification
−Removed: of pumps for the type 2 marketplace.
−Removed: As set forth in general terms herein,
−Removed: we believe existing pumps have numerous shortcomings and challenges including:
−Removed: Consumer electronics devices have evolved in both form and function.
−Removed: Diabetes pumps have not experienced similar
−Removed: We believe that consumers will be more receptive of products designed with the user experience in mind and that many
−Removed: have low tolerance for complex, difficult procedures for use and maintenance of products.
−Removed: We believe that consumers view traditional pumps, especially those with tubing, to be large, bulky, and inconvenient
−Removed: to carry or wear, especially when compared to modern consumer electronic devices.
−Removed: The size of the pump further contributes to
−Removed: users being embarrassed by the pump.
−Removed: We believe a simple patch style of pump will drive adoption.
−Removed: Pump mechanism
−Removed: Traditional pumps generally utilize a syringe and plunger mechanism to deliver insulin.
−Removed: We believe this
−Removed: design limits the ability to reduce the size of the pump, and also potentially exposes the user to the unintended delivery of
−Removed: the full volume of insulin within the pump, which can cause hypoglycemia or death.
−Removed: We believe that the fear of adverse health
−Removed: events due to technical malfunctions related to traditional pump mechanism limitations deters the adoption of insulin pump therapy.
−Removed: pumps are expensive, with the more popular models having purchase prices exceeding $4,000 for individuals without health insurance
−Removed: and often require significant patient copays.
−Removed: Others have daily use costs that exceed the reimbursement rates of many health insurance
−Removed: plans, forcing some users to spend thousands of dollars a year in copays.
−Removed: We believe this makes insurers hesitant to pay for pumps
−Removed: for any but their best and most compliant patients and places pumps out of reach for many patients who cannot afford such out
−Removed: of pocket expenses.
−Removed: pump is being designed and developed to address the above shortcomings and to appeal to:
−Removed: (i) the substantial group of “almost-pumpers”
−Removed: who are currently interested in using an insulin pump, but have not done so because of the complexity, cost or cumbersome nature
−Removed: of existing products, and (ii) people who are using one of the currently available insulin pumps but are dissatisfied with such
−Removed: We believe that, owing to our new proprietary technology, our proposed insulin pump will be the simplest and least expensive
−Removed: product on the market and the easiest for providers to prescribe.
−Removed: pump prototype of our proposed pump has been built to test what we believe to be our novel approach to insulin pumps.
−Removed: a pump that we believe will establish industry standards in terms of technology, simplicity to understand, ease of use and price,
−Removed: we believe our proposed pump will offer the vast majority of benefits afforded by more expensive and complex pumps but remain
−Removed: accessible to a substantially greater percentage of diabetes sufferers requiring daily insulin therapy.
−Removed: We believe people
−Removed: generally will not use technology that intimidates them and physicians are hesitant to prescribe such technology.
−Removed: We believe mass
−Removed: market products, such as is intended for our proposed pump, must be “user friendly”
−Removed: and affordable.
+Added: the insulin pump market stands at a crossroads as a confluence of events makes the timing for a new product introduction ideal.
+Added: 2020 was a very
+Added: difficult year in diabetes.
+Added: Between COVID-19 and a loss of glycemic control during quarantines and isolation, deaths from diabetes rose
+Added: by 17% in 2020 versus the prior year.
+Added: This was sharpest among the young who saw deaths rise 29% in the 25 to 44 year-old demographic.
+Added: This has created a pain point and a desire to find new and better solutions and has raised awareness among patients, caregivers, payors,
+Added: and policy makers.
+Added: COVID-19 also
+Added: encouraged (and required) trial and adoption of telehealth models and a great many people have found them to their liking with a high
+Added: proportion of patients and of health care providers, or HCPs, that want to continue to use these technologies.
+Added: We expect much of this
+Added: shift and newfound comfort with distance care models to persist and believes that this can provide a patient acquisition and engagement
+Added: model for insulin pumps and diabetes care, especially for pumps optimized for free trial and easy learning.
+Added: time, reimbursement for patch pumps has been increasingly moving to a pharmacy benefits manager, or PBM, model, which simplifies reimbursement
+Added: which will further aid in a “frictionless launch.” This represents a fundamental shift in the insulin pump market, making
+Added: onboarding rapid and simplifying a previously complex and time-consuming “insurance journey.”
+Added: The CGM space
+Added: (wearable devices that monitor blood glucose levels) has been experiencing explosive growth largely driven by the Libre.
+Added: was a more affordable, easier to use version of the popular Dexcom CGM product.
+Added: Not only is it now a larger (by revenues) product than
+Added: Dexcom, but it accomplished this without seeming to slow Dexcom’s growth but rather by growing a new category with a new type of
+Added: are increasingly interested in adopting technology and wearables to manage their diabetes.
+Added: We believe they are a natural market for a
+Added: new type of pump if it can meet their needs and address their objections and that the conjunction of the above trends represents a unique
+Added: opportunity in the insulin pump market’s history.
+Added: Diabetes technology
+Added: companies understand that we are at a turning point with new markets.
+Added: This can be seen with increased discussion around this topic during
+Added: recent national diabetes conferences, as well as but also an increase in marketing promotion.
+Added: For example, Dexcom aired a $5.5 million
+Added: 30-second commercial during the 2021 Super Bowl.
+Added: All these recent changes
+Added: support the high proportion of type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes intensively treated with insulin that are considered as Almost Pumpers,
+Added: number that may grow in the next years and that may be more reachable with adequate marketing strategies.
+Added: Instead of building
+Added: complex, bespoke, and difficult to manufacture and maintain pumping and control systems, we began with the technology and the user in
+Added: Using proprietary and patented methods of insulin measurement, we were able to eschew complex mechanisms and instead built a product
+Added: candidate using only parts from high volume consumer electronics manufacturing lines, breaking the cost vs functionality curve that has
+Added: existed in the insulin pump space and representing the first truly modern insulin pump design.
+Added: This is a new kind of product for a new
+Added: kind of patient.
+Added: The pre-production
+Added: models of our low-cost insulin pump are now undergoing the testing required to submit to the FDA for clearance to market them in the
+Added: United States.
+Added: We continue to devote, substantial time and resources to better understand the needs and preferences of Almost Pumpers
+Added: and the specific patent/provider/payor requirements to motivate change from MDI.
+Added: MODD1 has several distinguishing
+Added: 1 - The pump has a
+Added: simple button to press to deliver insulin as the patient requires it.
+Added: The electronic pump uses a simple motor and rotating cam to motivate
+Added: the insulin into the patient along with a low power Bluetooth and near field communication chips to allow the patient to communicate
+Added: with their smart phone, tablet, or other mobile computing platform, as appropriate.
+Added: 2 - The pump snaps
+Added: together with a three-day disposable cartridge that is patient filled with insulin for delivery.
+Added: It includes the power source and a simple
+Added: coin cell that allows it to run through the 80-hour life of the cartridge.
+Added: 3 - There is a set
+Added: (not shown) that contains a soft 6 millimeter cannula and an introducer for insertion into the skin and removal of the needle used to
+Added: transfer insulin to the body.
+Added: 4 - MODD1 comes with
+Added: a variety of methods for the patient to wear the pump.
+Added: Options include:
+Added: a base plate with adhesive (shown) for attaching to the body
+Added: that has features for holding the pump to the patient;
+Added: overwraps to hold the product candidate to the patient;
+Added: and a velcro strap with
+Added: a base plate suitable for wrapping around the arm or leg of the patient.
+Added: The system will deliver
+Added: a small continuous rate called a basal that will provide approximately 50% of the total daily dose required and the user will use the
+Added: on-pump button to administer boluses, typically before and after meals.
+Added: The objective is to
+Added: make the product candidate simple to acquire and take home, simple to learn and most importantly, simple to use to expand the pump market,
+Added: drive adoption and ultimately better clinical outcomes.
+Added: Technological
+Added: The adoption of new
+Added: ultra-high volume technologies will result in far easier manufacturing scale up as parts sourcing and assembly processes are far easier.
+Added: The MODD1 was designed from the beginning for mass manufacturing processes and “lights out” or near lights out production
+Added: assembly lines.
+Added: This advantage is compounded by the high availability and already optimized cost reduction in its components.
+Added: resulted in a cost of goods, estimated on the competitors’ announced margins and sales, 50% lower than our closest patch pump competitor.
+Added: The adoption of modern,
+Added: miniaturized technologies has led to numerous other advantages as well.
+Added: The MODD1 pump is smaller in overall volume than Insulet’s
+Added: popular Omnipod product, or the Omnipod, and has a lower profile to the skin.
+Added: Despite this, it holds a full 3mL (300 units) of insulin
+Added: in line with full sized pumps such as Tandem and Medtronic, 50% more than the 2mL reservoir in the Omnipod.
+Added: We believe that this volume
+Added: advantage over other patch pumps will be significant as 24% of type 1 and over 50% of the rapidly growing type 2 market require more
+Added: than 2mL of insulin every three days (the expected wear time of patch pumps).
+Added: In addition, our new
+Added: and patented pumping modality will provide what we believe is the most even (and thus closest to the function of a healthy pancreas)
+Added: delivery of basal insulin in the industry.
+Added: Basal rate can be delivered almost continuously while other pumps are delivering micro-boluses
+Added: every 5 minutes for the Omnipod and Tandem and Medtronic pumps.
+Added: We plan to demonstrate the impact of our system on glycemic control in
+Added: a future clinical study.
+Added: The technology allows
+Added: the patient to simply add insulin and operate.
+Added: The battery is included in each cartridge and the device is operated without a controller.
+Added: Nothing needs charging.
+Added: MODD1 has been made push button simple to appeal to a wider audience of users.
+Added: This new technology
+Added: has also made the MODD1 lighter than existing offerings.
+Added: Compared to the Omnipod, MODD1 weighs 20 grams (vs.
+Added: 26 grams) empty and 23 grams
+Added: 28 grams) fully filled (despite carrying 50% more insulin), a reduction of 23% and 18%, respectively.
+Added: Also, unlike existing patch
+Added: pumps, the MODD1 can be removed from the needle and taken off and replaced later if the user desires.
+Added: This avoids loss of insulin in
+Added: a pump due to accidental dislodging of the soft canula, an issue that users have expressed considerable dissatisfaction with on other
+Added: This technology is
+Added: also uniquely suited to dual (or more) chamber pumps.
+Added: We believe that such pumps will be integral to the realization of high time in
+Added: range artificial pancreas solutions that require no human intervention, the next step forward from the cumbersome and awkward solutions
+Added: today that require the user to announce meals, count and input carbs, and adjust delivery for exercise and sleep.
+Added: The advantages of cost
+Added: and miniaturization are multiplied in a multi-chamber setup and we expect to be able to reach price points, ease of use, and form factor
+Added: unlike anything seen in the industry thus far.
+Added: We believe that a prefilled, multi-hormone peel and stick patch pump able to function
+Added: in a fully autonomous closed loop system with CGM’s represents the next generation of diabetes care.
+Added: We believe that we have demonstrated
+Added: our technology and are securing intellectual property protection on our approach.
+Added: We believe this technology,
+Added: especially in dual chamber, will open up numerous applications outside of diabetes where medication compliance of complex therapy regimes
+Added: is difficult addressing such spaces as weight loss, fertility, and simplifying complex delivery of multi-drug cocktails, especially those
+Added: with diverse and challenging dosing schedules.
+Added: Our proposed pump is
+Added: being designed and developed to address the aforementioned shortcomings of the existing pump market and to appeal to:
+Added: (i) the substantial
+Added: group of “Almost-Pumpers” who are currently interested in using an insulin pump, but have not done so because of the complexity,
+Added: cost or cumbersome nature of existing products, and (ii) people who are using one of the currently available insulin pumps but are dissatisfied
+Added: with such products.
+Added: We believe that, owing to our new proprietary technology, our proposed insulin pump will be the simplest and least
+Added: expensive product on the market and the easiest for providers to prescribe.
+Added: Our current pump prototype
+Added: of our proposed pump has been built to test what we believe to be our novel approach to insulin pumps.
+Added: By providing a pump that we believe
+Added: will establish industry standards in terms of technology, simplicity to understand, ease of use and price, we believe our proposed pump
+Added: will offer the vast majority of benefits afforded by more expensive and complex pumps but remain accessible to a substantially greater
+Added: percentage of diabetes sufferers requiring daily insulin therapy.
+Added: We believe people generally
+Added: will not use technology that intimidates them and physicians are hesitant to prescribe such technology.
+Added: We believe mass market products,
+Added: such as is intended for our proposed pump, must be “user friendly” and affordable.
+Added: We believe this approach is fundamentally
+Added: different from that applied to the existing pump market today where most pumps are continuously adding complex features and are “user
+Added: friendly” to only the most technically astute.
+Added: Our current goal is
+Added: to successfully design, develop and obtain all required regulatory approvals for our proposed insulin pump, and, thereafter, commercialize
+Added: the finished product.
+Added: Our long-term goal is to become a leading provider of insulin pump therapy by focusing on both consumer and clinical
+Added: To achieve our above
+Added: stated immediate and current goals, we intend to pursue the following business strategies:
+Added: of innovative proprietary technology.
+Added: Based upon the substantial
+Added: experience of Paul DiPerna, our president, chief financial officer, treasurer and chairman of our board of directors, in engineering
+Added: design and innovative technology in the medical device industry and, in particular, with insulin pumps, we have generated proprietary
+Added: technology that has been incorporated into our proposed insulin pump.
+Added: Generally, this technology is involved in the delivery of insulin
+Added: to the user at the appropriate and necessary times.
+Added: We believe this technology will greatly assist us in creating a simpler, user-friendly
+Added: We believe the proposed design, engineering and technology being incorporated into our proposed pump will make it substantially
+Added: simpler and more affordable than those currently available.
+Added: These features, together with the safety and reliability of our proposed
+Added: pump, are designed to create the next generation of insulin pumps that will feature important and well-differentiated attributes compared
+Added: to those currently available and make it available to consumers across mostly all socioeconomic groups in the United States and around
+Added: costs low during our design and development process.
+Added: To attempt to ensure
+Added: that we have sufficient funds to design, develop, and obtain all required regulatory approvals for our proposed insulin pump without
+Added: having to sacrifice quality and efficiency, we intend to maintain a tight budget and limit expenditures where possible.
We believe this
−Removed: approach is fundamentally different from that applied to the existing pump market today where most pumps are continuously adding
−Removed: complex features and are “user friendly”
−Removed: to only the most technically astute.
−Removed: goal is to successfully design, develop and obtain all required regulatory approvals for our proposed insulin pump, and, thereafter,
−Removed: commercialize the finished product.
−Removed: Our long-term goal is to become a leading provider of insulin pump therapy by focusing on
−Removed: both consumer and clinical needs.
−Removed: To achieve our above stated immediate
−Removed: and current goals, we intend to pursue the following business strategies:
−Removed: innovative proprietary technology.
−Removed: Based upon Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna’s substantial experience in engineering design and innovative technology in the medical device industry and, in
−Removed: particular, with insulin pumps, we have generated proprietary technology that has been incorporated into our proposed insulin
−Removed: Generally, this technology is involved in the delivery of insulin to the user at the appropriate and necessary times.
−Removed: believe this technology will greatly assist us in creating a simpler, user-friendly pump.
−Removed: We believe the proposed design, engineering
−Removed: and technology being incorporated into our proposed pump will make it substantially simpler and more affordable than those currently
−Removed: These features, together with the safety and reliability of our proposed pump, are designed to create the next generation
−Removed: of insulin pumps that will feature important and well-differentiated attributes compared to those currently available and make
−Removed: it available to consumers across mostly all socioeconomic groups in the United States and around the world.
−Removed: low during our design and development process.
−Removed: To attempt to
−Removed: ensure that we have sufficient funds to design, develop, and obtain all required regulatory approvals for our proposed insulin
−Removed: pump without having to sacrifice quality and efficiency, we intend to maintain a tight budget and limit expenditures where possible.
−Removed: We believe this will be possible because of the extensive knowledge and experience of Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna, not only in the diabetes industry
−Removed: and more specifically in the insulin pump device market, but also his experience in designing and developing insulin pumps and
−Removed: other medical devices and his ability to manage a small, focused development team.
−Removed: We currently expect that various other expenses,
−Removed: such as product scale up, and sales and marketing costs, will not be incurred until such time as development work is completed
−Removed: and regulatory approvals obtained.
+Added: will be possible because of the extensive knowledge and experience of Mr.
+Added: DiPerna, not only in the diabetes industry and more specifically
+Added: in the insulin pump device market, but also his experience in designing and developing insulin pumps and other medical devices and his
+Added: ability to manage a small, focused development team.
+Added: We currently expect that various other expenses, such as product scale up, and sales
+Added: and marketing costs, will not be incurred until such time as development work is completed and regulatory approvals obtained.
experienced engineers selected, supervised, and led by Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna, a highly experienced and respected engineer and executive
−Removed: in the insulin pump industry.
−Removed: To attempt to
−Removed: ensure our proposed insulin pump is “state of the art,”
−Removed: functional, and efficient, as well as to conserve funds, substantially
−Removed: all of our employees will initially be hand-picked engineers under the leadership of Mr.
−Removed: We believe that there is a strong
−Removed: pool of engineers with significant applicable experience and knowledge who we will be able to initially employ on a contract and/or
−Removed: outsource basis to help us design and develop our proposed insulin pump.
−Removed: We believe by hiring such persons on an out-source basis,
−Removed: we will save substantial resources and by having Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna lead and focus the team on technological and mechanical aspects of
−Removed: our proposed insulin pump, we believe our team will be well guided, focused, cost efficient, and able to efficiently design and
−Removed: develop our product that we believe can eventually be a competitive and popular choice for people with insulin requiring diabetes.
−Removed: device industry is regulated extensively by governmental authorities, principally the FDA and corresponding state regulatory agencies.
−Removed: The regulations are very complex and are subject to rapid change and varying interpretations.
−Removed: Regulatory restrictions or changes
−Removed: could limit our ability to bring our proposed product to the commercialization stage as a result of higher than anticipated costs
−Removed: to obtain regulatory approval.
−Removed: The FDA and other U.S.
−Removed: governmental agencies regulate numerous elements of our proposed product
−Removed: at various stages, including:
−Removed: product design and development;
−Removed: pre-clinical and clinical
−Removed: testing and trials;
−Removed: product safety;
−Removed: establishment registration
−Removed: and product listing;
−Removed: labeling and storage;
−Removed: marketing, manufacturing,
−Removed: sales and distribution;
−Removed: pre-market clearance
−Removed: servicing and post-market
−Removed: surveillance;
−Removed: advertising and promotion;
−Removed: recalls and field safety
−Removed: corrective actions.
−Removed: Even if we obtain
−Removed: all regulatory approvals, before we can market or sell our proposed product, we must obtain either clearance under Section 510(k)
−Removed: of the FDCA or approval of a pre-market approval application, a PMA, from the FDA, unless an exemption from pre-market review
−Removed: In the 510(k) clearance process, the FDA must determine that a proposed device is “substantially equivalent”
−Removed: to a device legally on the market, known as a “predicate”
−Removed: device, with respect to intended use, technology and safety
−Removed: and effectiveness, in order to clear the proposed device for marketing.
−Removed: Clinical data is sometimes required to support a determination
−Removed: of substantial equivalence.
−Removed: The PMA pathway requires an applicant to demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of the device based
−Removed: on extensive data.
−Removed: The PMA process is typically required for devices that are deemed to pose the greatest risk, such as life-sustaining,
−Removed: life-supporting or implantable devices, such as our proposed insulin pump.
−Removed: Products that are approved through a PMA application
−Removed: generally need FDA approval before they can be modified.
−Removed: Similarly, some modifications made to products cleared through a 510(k)
−Removed: may require a new 510(k).
−Removed: The process of obtaining regulatory clearances or approvals to market a medical device, such as our
−Removed: proposed insulin pump, can be costly and time-consuming, and we may not be able to obtain such clearances or approvals on a timely
−Removed: basis or at all for our proposed product.
−Removed: If the FDA requires
−Removed: us to go through a more rigorous examination for our proposed product than we currently expect, we will require substantial additional
−Removed: funding sooner than anticipated and/or our product could be severely delayed, or our efforts ceased.
−Removed: We anticipate that our proposed
−Removed: product will require the 510(k) clearance process.
−Removed: delay, limit or deny clearance or approval of our proposed pump device for many reasons, including:
−Removed: inability to demonstrate that our product is safe and effective for its intended users;
−Removed: data from our clinical trials may be insufficient to support clearance or approval; and
−Removed: of the manufacturing process or facilities we use to meet applicable requirements.
−Removed: the FDA may change its clearance and approval policies, adopt additional regulations or revise existing regulations, or take other
−Removed: actions which may prevent or delay approval or clearance of our proposed product.
−Removed: Any delay in,
−Removed: or failure to receive or maintain, clearance or approval for our proposed product under development could prevent us from generating
−Removed: revenue therefrom or achieving profitability.
−Removed: Additionally, the FDA and other regulatory authorities have broad enforcement powers.
−Removed: Regulatory enforcement or inquiries, or other increased scrutiny on us, could dissuade some customers from using our proposed
−Removed: product and adversely affect our reputation and the perceived safety and efficacy of our proposed product.
−Removed: Failure to comply
−Removed: with applicable regulations could jeopardize our ability to commercialize and sell our proposed pump and result in enforcement
−Removed: actions such as fines, civil penalties, injunctions, warning letters, recalls of products, delays in the introduction of products
−Removed: into the market, refusal of the FDA or other regulators to grant future clearances or approvals, and the suspension or withdrawal
−Removed: of existing approvals by the FDA or other regulators.
−Removed: Any of these sanctions could result in higher than anticipated costs and
−Removed: have a material adverse effect on our reputation, business and financial condition.
+Added: DiPerna, a highly experienced
+Added: and respected engineer and executive in the insulin pump industry.
+Added: To attempt to ensure
+Added: our proposed insulin pump is “state of the art,” functional, and efficient, as well as to conserve funds, substantially all
+Added: of our employees will initially be hand-picked engineers under the leadership of Mr.
+Added: We believe that there is a strong pool
+Added: of engineers with significant applicable experience and knowledge who we will be able to initially employ on a contract and/or outsource
+Added: basis to help us design and develop our proposed insulin pump.
+Added: We believe by hiring such persons on an out-source basis, we will save
+Added: substantial resources and by having Mr.
+Added: DiPerna lead and focus the team on technological and mechanical aspects of our proposed insulin
+Added: pump, we believe our team will be well guided, focused, cost efficient, and able to efficiently design and develop our product candidate
+Added: that we believe can eventually be a competitive and popular choice for people with insulin requiring diabetes.
+Added: Commercialization
+Added: Overcoming the Insurance Hurdles
+Added: Our goal is to establish
+Added: MODD1 as the best option for new pump patients as we expand the market into the Almost Pumpers (Type 1 and Type 2) and the newly motivated
+Added: We seek to grow the market by providing first-line insulin pump therapy that is well suited to meet the needs of both diabetes
+Added: patients requiring insulin and their clinicians.
+Added: is approximately 50% less expensive to manufacture than the Omnipod.
+Added: This low cost allows
+Added: us to spend more on patients and sampling.
+Added: This will save money for payers.
+Added: the pump with no upfront cost to patients.
+Added: Benefits of MODD1 include:
+Added: discount vs Insulet will drive preferred status;
+Added: to use PBM codes as a disposable;
+Added: new code needed to be reimbursed at launch;
+Added: provider an estimated $1,062/patient/year vs the Omnipod.
+Added: MODD1 will be sampled and given to patients by the doctor or diabetes nurse educator at the
+Added: time of the patient visit.
+Added: When a patient is motivated to make change, our starter kit will
+Added: make it easy for the clinician to initiate the new therapy that same day.
+Added: We seek to eliminate
+Added: the currently challenging “insurance journey” and product acquisition timeline
+Added: and significantly reduce training time for the busy clinician, all major hurdles to pump
+Added: We intend to add telehealth support to help the patient throughout adoption and
+Added: use and to facilitate greater collaboration between patients and their physicians.
+Added: Europe represents
+Added: another large potential market for MODD1.
+Added: Approximately 60 million people in Europe live with diabetes, and approximately $161
+Added: billion is spent annually in diabetes healthcare costs in Europe.
+Added: At present, cost containment is restricting pump uptake across
+Added: Current pump usage hovers between 10% and 20% in many markets.
+Added: Single payor healthcare systems across the Europe traditionally
+Added: attempt to contain costs in the short term and seek low price technologies with moderate medical benefits.
+Added: MODD1 will offer a
+Added: rebalance of this risk/reward strategy in that payors will incur only minor incremental short-term costs with the benefit of longer
+Added: -term cost savings associated with reliable pump use.
+Added: We intend to employ a partnership strategy across Europe following in-house
+Added: managed regulatory and pricing activities in the major markets (e.g., the United Kingdom) and more cost receptive markets (e.g.,
+Added: the Nordic countries).
+Added: We are targeting European and United Kingdom approval towards early 2023.
+Added: Our initial target market for
+Added: our insulin pump is the Almost Pumper population located in the United States followed quickly by an effort to obtain Conformitè
+Added: Europëenne , or CE, mark approval for distribution throughout Europe.
+Added: MODD1 tackles the most
+Added: significant barriers to pump use-access and affordability-and makes it easier for clinicians, caregivers and individuals to manage diabetes
+Added: Our commercialization plan will drive adoption and is designed to expand the market and is intended to do the following:
+Added: adoption with a comprehensive frictionless launch program.
+Added: We will seek to decrease the
+Added: level of reimbursement effort and cost to encourage HCPs to offer our pumps and encourage
+Added: patient trials.
+Added: Our product candidate reduces the technical hurdles to widen appeal, new
+Added: starts and increase adherence.
+Added: We will encourage MDI patients who want or need more control
+Added: to make the switch to the pump earlier in their treatment-ideally right at diagnosis.
+Added: technology to support sales and new patient acquisition .
+Added: We intend to set up tech enabled
+Added: sales teams backed with a full omnichannel program to drive awareness and trial with HCPs
+Added: and patients.
+Added: We will focus on educating providers that our product candidate is simple to
+Added: teach and easy to support making it an ideal front line offering.
+Added: patient trials.
+Added: To facilitate patient trials, we intend to:
+Added: a free pump and a 30-day supply of cartridges, insurance verification, co-pay coupons and
+Added: telehealth support to patients thereby reducing outlay of time and money
+Added: with connected care companies to provide superb support of patients from trial through the
+Added: that MODD1 will be the only insulin pump that patients can take home immediately from the doctor’s office.
+Added: MODD1 300-unit chamber to increase adoption with Type 2 patients .
+Added: MODD1 has a major advantage
+Added: over existing patch pumps in that the chamber carries enough insulin to meet the high doses
+Added: many type 2 patients need.
+Added: We intend to promote this advantage and capture a significant
+Added: share of the existing type 2 pump users as well as new starts.
+Added: with key organizations and policy makers to pave the way for greater access to pumps.
+Added: will promote MODD1 technology among the underserved, who are typically low users
+Added: of health technology.
+Added: We will identify individuals, patient organizations, professional societies,
+Added: and policy and DEI organizations that are critically important to the adoption of new technologies
+Added: in the diabetes space and build relationships with these influential stakeholders.
+Added: a clinical study program (with key diabetes centers ) to provide additional clinical support
+Added: for MODD1 in special patient types and clinical setting.
+Added: After obtaining 510(k) clearance,
+Added: we intend to conduct a soft launch and clinical research program in major markets to pave
+Added: the way for the full launch in late 2022.
+Added: We will work with our advisors and key diabetes
+Added: associations to educate the community about the MODD1.
+Added: In addition, we will conduct clinical
+Added: studies to develop competitive claims and market expansion.
+Added: with major health plans to establish MODD1 as the first line pump for Type 2 patients .
+Added: We believe MODD1 will be payor preferred for both type 1 and type 2 patients.
+Added: It was designed
+Added: to attain preferential reimbursement and avoid the coverage pitfalls many other pumps have
+Added: want a simple product that is less expensive.
+Added: We will launch with a discount program for
+Added: payers of 20% less than Omnipod to drive uptake.
+Added: to use existing PBM codes as a disposable
+Added: Reimbursed at launch
+Added: with the massive movement to telehealth.
+Added: 2020 saw personal telehealth
+Added: go from beta test to mainstream.
+Added: Customers and providers have become comfortable with it.
+Added: There are only 4,000 patient-facing endocrinologists
+Added: in the United States.
+Added: The treatment of diabetes will be significantly enhanced with telehealth to drive more volume and clinical enhancements
+Added: through their practices.
+Added: Telemedicine is a force multiplier for a small group of doctors to better serve a large market.
+Added: MODD1 was designed
+Added: to be affordable enough for free sampling and trial, and simple enough for self-guided user training.
+Added: We believe that by combining telehealth
+Added: support with MODD1, we will decrease the burden of diabetes care and improve the lives of people with diabetes.
+Added: Pre-Launch/Trial
+Added: We intend to initiate
+Added: a “soft launch” following FDA clearance of the MODD1 device.
+Added: Our plan is to select a group of clinicians who are well trained,
+Added: experienced and have the support infrastructure to take on initial patients and monitor them carefully to provide clinical feedback on
+Added: our performance to further refine our product candidate and support infrastructure prior to full commercial launch.
+Added: Many of these clinicians
+Added: will have been those who assisted in the development of the MODD1 offering.
+Added: We intend to continue
+Added: to modify, refine and finalize our system to best meet:
+Added: general needs and preferences of our almost pumper target market based upon our knowledge
+Added: of the diabetes industry and information available and/or obtained by us from Almost Pumpers
+Added: and their caregivers;
+Added: general guidelines of third-party payors, private and public insurance companies, preferred
+Added: provider organizations and other managed care providers with particular focus on the guidelines
+Added: established by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, which administrates
+Added: the United States Medicare program, or Medicare.
+Added: To assist us in making such modifications
+Added: and refinements, we have retained independent consultants to focus on ensuring that our product
+Added: candidate satisfies the existing coverage and reimbursement criteria of such third-party
+Added: Manufacturing
+Added: Manufacturing requires
+Added: the production of pumps, cartridges, and baseplates as well as assembly with sets.
+Added: In connection therewith:
+Added: plan to build an automation machine for implementation in Southern California, close to the
+Added: design engineers, that will be capable of assembling the cassettes at a rate sufficient to
+Added: supply 50,000 patients in a single shift (500,000 per month).
+Added: This equipment will require
+Added: nine months to design and build and three months to verify and validate into our manufacturing
+Added: packaging equipment and boxing will start as manual operations while the automation is refined.
+Added: This equipment will be purchased and implemented as the second phase of automation of the
+Added: sets will be purchased through third party suppliers with expertise in the product to time
+Added: and cost-effectively introduce the product and focus on our core expertise.
+Added: standard cost of the cartridge is estimated to be $7.68 at the point we are manufacturing
+Added: for 3,000 users or more.
+Added: The pump is estimated to cost $34.00 at similar volumes.
+Added: internal estimates project potential gross margins as high as 78% and a 20% operating margin,
+Added: approximately 30 months after launch.
+Added: The pumps will be built
+Added: and tested in our San Diego facility while we build volume and expertise.
+Added: When the production methodology has matured and the volumes
+Added: have risen, we will consider a transition to outside and offshore manufacturing, as appropriate.
+Added: The FDA requires us
+Added: to meet all applicable regulations for insulin pumps, a subcategory of infusion pumps, which are generally considered Class 2 devices.
+Added: The design of the MODD1 pump has been completed, units have been built and testing is underway to verify that the design meets all FDA
+Added: requirements.
+Added: There are 17 specific tests required to submit for 510(k) clearance.
+Added: We break these required tests into four testing categories:
+Added: wetted surface, electrical safety, usability and internal.
+Added: Appropriate design control and standard operating procedures have been implemented
+Added: to allow us, when testing is completed, to submit for clearance under the premarket notification (or 510(k)) process.
+Added: To achieve this,
+Added: we will continue to work closely with our regulatory consultants to complete, finalize and file our submission to the FDA for 510(k)
+Added: clearance and all other documentation necessary to obtain marketing authorization of our insulin pump.
+Added: have engaged the FDA in two pre-submission conferences to ensure that we understand and meet
+Added: the FDA’s requirements, expectations and standards with regard to clearance of our
+Added: product candidate.
+Added: At these meetings, our team, including our FDA regulatory consultant,
+Added: received FDA comments and guidance regarding our proposed submission during the pre-market
+Added: notification period for 510(k) clearance (including any suggested modifications to the device
+Added: description, indications for use or summary of supporting data contained in the notification);
+Added: are currently preparing and ensuring that our premarket notification, which will be part
+Added: of our FDA submission in order to demonstrate that our insulin pump is substantially equivalent
+Added: to an insulin pump previously cleared by the FDA and legally marketed to the public and generally
+Added: safe and effective for its intended use.
+Added: We are also preparing our submission to the FDA,
+Added: which will include the relevant results of our performance and human factor tests (relating
+Added: to, among other things, user effectiveness, sterility, pump efficiency and shipping compatibility)
+Added: demonstrating the accuracy and usability of our insulin pump, which we believe will satisfy
+Added: the mandates of the FDCA and any applicable performance standards.
+Added: Commercialization
+Added: While we have substantially
+Added: completed the general engineering and mechanical aspects of our insulin pump prototype, prior to commercializing, we still must successfully
+Added: complete a number of material steps including:
+Added: to modify, refine and finalize our prototype so that it meets:
+Added: general needs and preferences of our almost-pumper target market based upon our knowledge
+Added: of the diabetes industry and information available and/or obtained by us from Almost Pumpers
+Added: and their caregivers;
+Added: general guidelines of third-party payors, private and public insurance companies, preferred
+Added: provider organizations and other managed care providers with particular focus on the guidelines
+Added: established by CMS, which administers Medicare.
+Added: To assist us in making such modifications
+Added: and refinements, we have retained independent consultants to focus on ensuring that our product
+Added: candidate satisfies the existing coverage and reimbursement criteria of such third-party
+Added: our manufacturing process during the submission process to identify and select a manufacturer
+Added: of our insulin pump through a competitive bidding process, as we prepare for our product
+Added: introduction;
+Added: such actions, if any, as may be required by the FDA as a condition to granting approval and
+Added: providing 510(k) clearance for our insulin pump;
+Added: and retain appropriate sales and marketing personnel to develop, implement and launch a promotional
+Added: campaign for our insulin pump substantially focused on our target market.
+Added: As with any medical
+Added: device attempting to enter and successfully compete with existing products in an established and competitive marketplace, we will face
+Added: significant hurdles to accomplish the above steps to commercialization including:
+Added: FDA 510(k) clearance to market and sell our insulin pump to the public;
+Added: any other FDA-required authorizations with regard to our product candidate, as required by
+Added: endocrinologists, physician’s assistants, nurse practitioners and nurse educators,
+Added: who typically prescribe pump usage, and certified diabetes educators and dieticians, who
+Added: provide education and guidance to diabetes patients, as to what we believe to be the superior
+Added: qualities of our product candidate;
+Added: · Demonstrating
+Added: to select general practitioners, who have historically been skeptical of the heightened support
+Added: inherent in insulin pumps, our product candidate’s ease of use and convenience;
+Added: that our final product does, in fact, meet the needs of Almost-Pumpers;
+Added: the historic obstacles and reluctance of Almost-Pumpers to using insulin pumps to treat their
+Added: that third party payors agree to cover all or a substantial portion of the purchase price
+Added: and recurring costs of the use of our insulin pump.
+Added: Going forward, we expect
+Added: to continue to evolve the MODD1 pumps and their capabilities and functionality, both in response to patient needs and as part of our
+Added: current platform roadmap.
+Added: our next generation product, or MODD2, we will seek to add phone-based control and alternate
+Added: controller enabled, or ACE, and automated insulin delivery, or AID, capability to allow integration
+Added: with popular continuous glucose monitors.
+Added: This will expand our available market to include
+Added: many existing pumpers.
+Added: The new model has the same modular design and low-cost components
+Added: as MODD1 and provides a much desired breakthrough for patients - two-factor command authentication
+Added: that allows the wearer to use his/her own cell phone as the controller.
+Added: · Additionally,
+Added: adds AID control functionality via an ACE designation
+Added: approved algorithm controller can drive insulin delivery in “auto” mode
+Added: integration allows the controller to potentially adjust basal insulin rate for meals and
+Added: exercise with an approved algorithm.
+Added: MODD2, we will seek to move to a full featured multi chamber pump optimized for high time
+Added: in range fully autonomous close loop insulin delivery utilizing the form factor and cost
+Added: advantages of its pumping designs to create an affordable, easy to use drug delivery system
+Added: to realize the aspiration of true “artificial pancreas” systems.
+Added: moving to a drug prefill model such that cartridges can be filled with therapeutics and shipped
+Added: cold chain to patients, further simplifying the use process.
+Added: Our operations are
+Added: subject to comprehensive federal, state, and local laws and regulations in the jurisdictions in which we or our research and development
+Added: partners do business.
+Added: The laws and regulations governing our business and interpretations of those laws and regulations and are subject
+Added: to frequent change.
+Added: Our ability to operate profitably will depend in part upon our ability, and that of our research and development
+Added: partners and affiliates, to operate in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
+Added: The laws and regulations relating to medical
+Added: products and healthcare services that apply to our business and that of our partners and affiliates continue to evolve, and we must,
+Added: therefore, devote significant resources to monitoring developments in legislation, enforcement, and regulation in such areas.
+Added: applicable laws and regulations change, we are likely to make conforming modifications in our business processes from time to time.
+Added: cannot provide assurance that a review of our business by courts or regulatory authorities will not result in determinations that could
+Added: adversely affect our operations or that the regulatory environment will not change in a way that restricts our operations.
+Added: In the United States,
+Added: medical devices are strictly regulated by the FDA.
+Added: Under the FDCA, a medical device is defined as “an instrument, apparatus, implement,
+Added: machine, contrivance, implant, in vitro reagent, or other similar or related article, including a component, part or accessory which
+Added: is, among other things:
+Added: intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention
+Added: of disease, in man or other animals;
+Added: or intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals, and which
+Added: does not achieve its primary intended purposes through chemical action within or on the body of man or other animals and which is not
+Added: dependent upon being metabolized for the achievement of any of its primary intended purposes.” This definition provides a clear
+Added: distinction between a medical device and other FDA regulated products such as drugs.
+Added: If the primary intended use of a medical product
+Added: is achieved through chemical action or by being metabolized by the body, the product is usually a drug or biologic.
+Added: If not, it is generally
+Added: a medical device.
+Added: We are currently developing
+Added: an insulin pump delivery system, which is regulated by the FDA as a medical device under the FDCA, as implemented and enforced by the
+Added: The FDA regulates the development, testing, manufacturing, labeling, packaging, storage, installation, servicing, advertising, promotion,
+Added: marketing, distribution, import, export, and market surveillance of our medical devices.
+Added: Premarket Regulatory Requirements
+Added: Before being introduced
+Added: into the U.S.
+Added: market, each medical device must obtain marketing clearance or approval from the FDA through the premarket notification
+Added: (or 510(k)) process, the de novo classification process, or the
+Added: premarket approval, or PMA, process, unless they are determined to be Class I devices or to otherwise qualify for an exemption from one
+Added: of these available forms of premarket review and authorization by the FDA.
+Added: Under the FDCA, medical devices are classified into one of
+Added: three classes - Class I, Class II or Class III - depending on the degree of risk associated with each medical device and the extent of
+Added: control needed to provide reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness.
+Added: Classification of a device is important because the class
+Added: to which a device is assigned determines, among other things, the necessity and type of FDA review required prior to marketing the device.
+Added: Class I devices are those for which reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness can be maintained through adherence to general controls
+Added: which include compliance with the applicable portions of the FDA’s Quality System Regulation, or the QSR, as well as regulations
+Added: requiring facility registration and product listing, reporting of adverse medical events, and appropriate, truthful and non-misleading
+Added: labeling, advertising, and promotional materials.
+Added: The Class I designation also applies to devices for which there is insufficient information
+Added: to determine that general controls are sufficient to provide reasonable assurance of the safety and effectiveness of the device or to
+Added: establish special controls to provide such assurance, but that are not life-supporting or life-sustaining or for a use which is of substantial
+Added: importance in preventing impairment of human health, and that do not present a potential, unreasonable risk of illness or injury.
+Added: Class II devices are
+Added: those for which general controls alone are insufficient to provide reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness and there is sufficient
+Added: information to establish “special controls.” These special controls can include performance standards, post-market surveillance
+Added: requirements, patient registries and FDA guidance documents describing device-specific special controls.
+Added: While most Class I devices are
+Added: exempt from the premarket notification requirement, most Class II devices require a premarket notification prior to commercialization
+Added: in the United States;
+Added: however, the FDA has the authority to exempt Class II devices from the premarket notification requirement under
+Added: certain circumstances.
+Added: As a result, manufacturers of most Class II devices must submit premarket notifications to the FDA under Section
+Added: 510(k) of the FDCA (21 U.S.C.
+Added: § 360(k)) in order to obtain the necessary clearance to market or commercially distribute such devices.
+Added: To obtain 510(k) clearance, manufacturers must submit to the FDA adequate information demonstrating that the proposed device is “substantially
+Added: equivalent” to a “predicate device” that is already on the market.
+Added: A predicate device is a legally marketed device
+Added: that is not subject to PMA, meaning, (i) a device that was legally marketed prior to May 28, 1976 (“pre-amendments device”)
+Added: and for which a PMA is not required, (ii) a device that has been reclassified from Class III to Class II or I or (iii) a device that
+Added: was found substantially equivalent through the 510(k) process.
+Added: If the FDA agrees that the device is substantially equivalent to the predicate
+Added: device identified by the applicant in a premarket notification submission, the agency will grant 510(k) clearance for the new device,
+Added: permitting the applicant to commercialize the device.
+Added: Premarket notifications are subject to user fees, unless a specific exemption applies.
+Added: If there is no adequate
+Added: predicate to which a manufacturer can compare its proposed device, the proposed device is automatically classified as a Class III device.
+Added: In such cases, a device manufacturer must then fulfill the more rigorous PMA requirements or can request a risk-based classification
+Added: determination for its device in accordance with the de novo classification process.
+Added: Devices that are intended
+Added: to be life sustaining or life supporting, devices that are implantable, devices that present a potential unreasonable risk of harm or
+Added: are of substantial importance in preventing impairment of health, and devices that are not substantially equivalent to a predicate device
+Added: and for which safety and effectiveness cannot be assured solely by the general controls and special controls are placed in Class III.
+Added: Such devices generally require FDA approval through the PMA process, unless the device is a pre-amendments device not yet subject to
+Added: a regulation requiring premarket approval.
+Added: The PMA process is more demanding than the 510(k) process.
+Added: For a PMA, the manufacturer must
+Added: demonstrate through extensive data, including data from preclinical studies and one or more clinical trials, that the device is safe
+Added: and effective for its proposed indication.
+Added: The PMA must also contain a full description of the device and its components, a full description
+Added: of the methods, facilities and controls used for manufacturing, and proposed labeling.
+Added: Following receipt of a PMA submission, the FDA
+Added: determines whether the application is sufficiently complete to permit a substantive review.
+Added: If the FDA accepts the application for review,
+Added: it has 180 days under the FDCA to complete its review and determine whether the proposed device can be approved for commercialization,
+Added: although in practice, PMA reviews often take significantly longer, and it can take up to several years for the FDA to issue a final decision.
+Added: Before approving a PMA, the FDA generally also performs an on-site inspection of manufacturing facilities for the product to ensure compliance
+Added: with the QSR.
+Added: novo classification process allows a manufacturer whose novel device is automatically classified into Class III to request
+Added: down-classification of its device to Class I or Class II, on the basis that the device presents low or moderate risk, as an alternative
+Added: to following the typical Class III device pathway requiring the submission and approval of a PMA application.
+Added: Under the Food and Drug
+Added: Administration Safety and Innovation Act of 2012, the FDA is required to classify a device within 120 days following receipt of the de
+Added: novo classification request from an applicant;
+Added: however, the most recent FDA premarket review goals state that in fiscal year
+Added: 2021, FDA will attempt to issue a decision within 150 days of receipt on 65% of all de
+Added: novo classification requests received during the year and on 70% of de
+Added: novo requests received during fiscal year 2022.
+Added: If the manufacturer seeks reclassification into Class II, the classification
+Added: request must include a draft proposal for special controls that are necessary to provide a reasonable assurance of the safety and effectiveness
+Added: of the medical device.
+Added: The FDA may reject the classification request if it identifies a legally marketed predicate device that would
+Added: be appropriate for a 510(k) notification or determines that the device is not low to moderate risk or that general controls would be
+Added: inadequate to control the risks and special controls cannot be developed.
+Added: Clinical trials are
+Added: almost always required to support PMAs and are sometimes required to support 510(k) and de novo classification submissions.
+Added: investigations of devices to determine safety and effectiveness must be conducted in accordance with the FDA’s investigational
+Added: device exemption, or IDE, regulations that govern investigational device labeling, prohibit promotion of investigational devices, and
+Added: specify recordkeeping, reporting and monitoring responsibilities of study sponsors and study investigators.
+Added: If the device presents a
+Added: “significant risk,” as defined by the FDA, the agency requires the study sponsor to submit an IDE application to the FDA,
+Added: which must become effective prior to commencing human clinical trials.
+Added: The IDE will automatically become effective 30 days after receipt
+Added: by the FDA, unless the FDA denies the application or notifies the sponsor that the investigation is on hold and may not begin until the
+Added: sponsor provides supplemental information about the investigation that satisfies the agency’s concerns.
+Added: If the FDA determines that
+Added: there are deficiencies or other concerns with an IDE that require modification of the study, the FDA may permit a clinical trial to proceed
+Added: under a conditional approval.
+Added: The FDA may also notify the sponsor that the study is approved as proposed or approved with specific requested
+Added: modification.
+Added: Furthermore, the agency may withdraw approval of an IDE under certain circumstances.
+Added: In addition, the study must be approved
+Added: by, and conducted under the oversight of, an institutional review board, or IRB, for each clinical site.
+Added: If the device presents a non-significant
+Added: risk to the patient according to criteria established by the FDA as part of the IDE regulations, a sponsor may begin the clinical trial
+Added: after obtaining approval for the trial by one or more IRBs without separate authorization from the FDA, but must still comply with abbreviated
+Added: IDE requirements, such as monitoring the investigation, ensuring that the investigators obtain informed consent, and labeling and record-keeping
+Added: requirements.
+Added: Post-Marketing
+Added: Restrictions and Enforcement
+Added: After a device is placed
+Added: on the market, numerous regulatory requirements apply.
+Added: These include, but are not limited to:
+Added: and updating establishment registration and device listings with the FDA;
+Added: with the QSR, which requires manufacturers to follow stringent design, testing, control,
+Added: documentation, record maintenance, including maintenance of complaint and related investigation
+Added: files, and other quality assurance controls during the manufacturing process;
+Added: · unannounced
+Added: routine or for-cause device facility inspections by the FDA, which may include our suppliers’
+Added: regulations, which prohibit the promotion of products for uncleared or unapproved (or “off-label”)
+Added: uses and impose other restrictions relating to promotional activities;
+Added: · corrections
+Added: and removal reporting regulations, which require that manufacturers report to the FDA field
+Added: corrections or removals if undertaken to reduce a risk to health posed by a device or to
+Added: remedy a violation of the FDCA that may present a risk to health;
+Added: · post-market
+Added: surveillance regulations, which apply to certain Class II or III devices when necessary to
+Added: protect the public health or to provide additional safety and effectiveness data for the
+Added: In addition, under
+Added: the FDA medical device reporting, or MDR, regulations, medical device manufacturers are required to report to the FDA information that
+Added: a device has or may have caused or contributed to a death or serious injury or has malfunctioned in a way that would likely cause or
+Added: contribute to death or serious injury if the malfunction of the device or a similar device of such manufacturer were to recur.
+Added: to file an MDR involves a judgment by the manufacturer.
+Added: If the FDA disagrees with the manufacturer’s determination, the FDA can
+Added: take enforcement action.
+Added: requirements also extend to health care facilities that use medical devices in providing care to patients, or “device user
+Added: facilities,” which include hospitals, ambulatory surgical facilities, nursing homes, outpatient diagnostic facilities, or
+Added: outpatient treatment facilities, but not physician offices.
+Added: A device user facility must report any device-related death to both the
+Added: FDA and the device manufacturer, or any device-related serious injury to the manufacturer (or, if the manufacturer is unknown, to
+Added: the FDA) within 10 days of the event.
+Added: Device user facilities are not required to report device malfunctions that would likely cause
+Added: or contribute to death or serious injury if the malfunction were to recur but may voluntarily report such malfunctions through
+Added: MedWatch, the FDA’s Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program.
+Added: The FDA also has the
+Added: authority to require the recall of commercialized medical device products in the event of material deficiencies or defects in design
+Added: or manufacture.
+Added: The authority to require a recall must be based on an FDA finding that there is a reasonable probability that the device
+Added: would cause serious adverse health consequences or death.
+Added: Manufacturers may, under their own initiative, recall a product if any distributed
+Added: devices fail to meet established specifications, are otherwise misbranded or adulterated under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, or the FDCA, or if any other material deficiency
+Added: The FDA requires that certain classifications of recalls be reported to the FDA within ten working days after the recall is
+Added: The failure to comply
+Added: with applicable regulatory requirements can result in enforcement action by the FDA, which may include any of the following sanctions:
+Added: letters, fines, injunctions or civil penalties;
+Added: detentions or seizures of products;
+Added: restrictions;
+Added: in the introduction of products into the market;
+Added: or partial suspension of production;
+Added: or refusal of the FDA or other regulators to grant 510(k) clearance, PMA approvals, or other
+Added: marketing authorization to new products;
+Added: · withdrawals
+Added: of marketing authorizations;
+Added: the most serious cases, criminal prosecution.
+Added: To ensure compliance
+Added: with regulatory requirements, medical device manufacturers are subject to market surveillance and periodic, pre-scheduled and unannounced
+Added: inspections by the FDA, and these inspections may include the manufacturing facilities of subcontractors.
+Added: Trade Commission Regulatory Oversight
+Added: Our advertising for
+Added: our products and services is subject to federal truth-in-advertising laws enforced by the Federal Trade Commission, or the FTC, as well
+Added: as comparable state consumer protection laws.
+Added: Under the Federal Trade Commission Act, or FTC Act, the FTC is empowered, among other things,
+Added: to (a) prevent unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce;
+Added: (b) seek monetary redress
+Added: and other relief for conduct injurious to consumers;
+Added: and (c) gather and compile information and conduct investigations relating to the
+Added: organization, business, practices, and management of entities engaged in commerce.
+Added: The FTC has very broad enforcement authority, and
+Added: failure to abide by the substantive requirements of the FTC Act and other consumer protection laws can result in administrative or judicial
+Added: penalties, including civil penalties, injunctions affecting the manner in which we would be able to market services or products in the
+Added: future, or criminal prosecution.
+Added: Law and Regulation
+Added: If our MODD1 product
+Added: candidate or our other future product candidates are approved in the United States, we will have to comply with various U.S.
+Added: and state laws, rules and regulations pertaining to healthcare fraud and abuse, including anti-kickback laws and physician self-referral
+Added: laws, rules and regulations.
+Added: Violations of the fraud and abuse laws are punishable by criminal and civil sanctions, including, in some
+Added: instances, exclusion from participation in federal and state healthcare programs, including Medicare and Medicaid.
+Added: These laws include
+Added: the following:
+Added: federal Anti-Kickback Statute prohibits, among other things, persons from knowingly and willfully
+Added: soliciting, offering, receiving or providing remuneration, directly or indirectly, in cash
+Added: or in kind, to induce or reward either the referral of an individual for, or the purchase,
+Added: order or recommendation of, any good or service, for which payment may be made, in whole
+Added: or in part, under a federal healthcare program such as Medicare and Medicaid;
+Added: federal False Claims Act imposes civil penalties, and provides for civil whistleblower or
+Added: qui tam actions, against individuals or entities for knowingly presenting, or causing to
+Added: be presented, to the federal government, claims for payment that are false or fraudulent
+Added: or making a false statement to avoid, decrease or conceal an obligation to pay money to the
+Added: federal government;
+Added: federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPAA, imposes criminal
+Added: and civil liability for executing a scheme to defraud any healthcare benefit program or making
+Added: false statements relating to healthcare matters;
+Added: as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act and
+Added: its implementing regulations, also imposes obligations, including mandatory contractual terms,
+Added: with respect to safeguarding the privacy, security and transmission of individually identifiable
+Added: health information;
+Added: federal false statements statute prohibits knowingly and willfully falsifying, concealing
+Added: or covering up a material fact or making any materially false statement in connection with
+Added: the delivery of or payment for healthcare benefits, items or services;
+Added: federal transparency requirements under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act require manufacturers
+Added: of FDA-approved drugs, devices, biologics and medical supplies covered by Medicare or Medicaid
+Added: to report, on an annual basis, to the Department of Health and Human Services information
+Added: related to payments and other transfers of value to physicians, teaching hospitals, and certain
+Added: advanced non-physician health care practitioners and physician ownership and investment interests;
+Added: state and foreign laws and regulations, such as state anti-kickback and false claims laws,
+Added: may apply to sales or marketing arrangements and claims involving healthcare items or services
+Added: reimbursed by nongovernmental third-party payors, including private insurers.
+Added: Some state laws require
+Added: pharmaceutical or medical device companies to comply with the relevant industry’s voluntary compliance guidelines and the relevant
+Added: compliance guidance promulgated by the federal government in addition to requiring drug and device manufacturers to report information
+Added: related to payments to physicians and other health care providers or marketing expenditures.
+Added: State and foreign laws
+Added: also govern the privacy and security of health information in some circumstances, many of which differ from each other in significant
+Added: ways and often are not preempted by HIPAA, thus complicating compliance efforts.
+Added: We also may be subject to, or may in the future become
+Added: subject to, U.S.
+Added: federal and state, and foreign laws and regulations imposing obligations on how we collect, use, disclose, store and
+Added: process personal information.
+Added: Our actual or perceived failure to comply with such obligations could result in liability or reputational
+Added: harm and could harm our business.
+Added: Ensuring compliance with such laws could also impair our efforts to maintain and expand our customer
+Added: base and thereby decrease our future revenues.
+Added: The European Union, or EU,
+Added: approves the use of medical devices in a very different way.
+Added: They have similar regulations and requirements to adhere to, however a Notified
+Added: Body, in the form of a private company, will represent their interests and is required to have sufficient expertise to review all applications
+Added: and the company’s internal processes to ensure the safety of the product for which approval is being requested.
+Added: We are in the process
+Added: of identifying a Notified Body to represent us, and we will follow our FDA submission process with regard to preparing the materials
+Added: and processes required to meet the regulations and gain clearance.
+Added: Economic Area
+Added: In the European Economic
+Added: Area (which is comprised of the 27 member states of the European Union plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein), or the EEA, manufacturers
+Added: of medical devices need to comply with the Essential Requirements laid out in Annex I to the EU Medical Devices Directive (Council Directive
+Added: 93/42/EEC) or with the General Safety and Performance Requirements (GSPR) of the new EU Medical Devices Regulation (EU 2017/745).
+Added: with these requirements is a prerequisite to be able to affix the CE mark to medical devices, without which they cannot be marketed or
+Added: sold in the EEA.
+Added: To demonstrate compliance with the Essential Requirements and the GSPR and obtain the right to affix the CE Mark, manufacturers
+Added: of medical devices must undergo a conformity assessment procedure, which varies according to the type of medical device and its classification.
+Added: Except for low-risk medical devices (Class I with no measuring function and which are not sterile), where the manufacturer can issue
+Added: an EC Declaration of Conformity based on a self-assessment of the conformity of its products with the Essential Requirements and the
+Added: GSPR, a conformity assessment procedure requires the intervention of a Notified Body, which is an organization designated by a competent
+Added: authority of an EEA country to conduct conformity assessments.
+Added: Depending on the relevant conformity assessment procedure, the Notified
+Added: Body would audit and examine the Technical File and the quality system for the manufacture, design and final inspection of the devices.
+Added: The Notified Body issues a CE Certificate of Conformity following successful completion of a conformity assessment procedure conducted
+Added: in relation to the medical device and its manufacturer and their conformity with the Essential Requirements and GSPR.
+Added: This Certificate
+Added: entitles the manufacturer to affix the CE mark to its medical devices after having prepared and signed a related EC Declaration of Conformity.
+Added: As a general rule, demonstration of conformity of medical devices and their manufacturers with the Essential Requirements and GSPR must
+Added: be based, among other things, on the evaluation of clinical data supporting the safety and performance of the products during normal
+Added: conditions of use.
+Added: Specifically, a manufacturer must demonstrate that the device achieves its intended performance during normal conditions
+Added: of use, that the known and foreseeable risks, and any adverse events, are minimized and acceptable when weighed against the benefits
+Added: of its intended performance, and that any claims made about the performance and safety of the device are supported by suitable evidence.
+Added: All manufacturers placing
+Added: medical devices into the market in the EEA must comply with the EU Medical Device Vigilance System.
+Added: Under this system, incidents must
+Added: be reported to the relevant authorities of the member states of the EEA, and manufacturers are required to take Field Safety Corrective
+Added: Actions, or FSCAs, to reduce a risk of death or serious deterioration in the state of health associated with the use of a medical device
+Added: that is already placed on the market.
+Added: An incident is defined as any malfunction or deterioration in the characteristics and/or performance
+Added: of a device, as well as any inadequacy in the labeling or the instructions for use which, directly or indirectly, might lead to or might
+Added: have led to the death of a patient or user or of other persons or to a serious deterioration in their state of health.
+Added: An FSCA may include
+Added: the recall, modification, exchange, destruction or retrofitting of the device.
+Added: FSCAs must be communicated by the manufacturer or its
+Added: legal representative to its customers and/or to the end users of the device through Field Safety Notices.
+Added: Where appropriate, our products
+Added: commercialized in Europe are CE marked and classified as either Class I or Class II.
+Added: In 2017, the European
+Added: Parliament passed the Medical Devices Regulation, which repeals and replaces the EU Medical Devices Directive.
+Added: Unlike directives, which
+Added: must be implemented into the national laws of the EEA member states, the regulations would be directly applicable (i.e., without the
+Added: need for adoption of EEA member State laws implementing them) in all EEA member states and are intended to eliminate current differences
+Added: in the regulation of medical devices among EEA member States.
+Added: The Medical Devices Regulation, among other things, is intended to establish
+Added: a uniform, transparent, predictable and sustainable regulatory framework across the EEA for medical devices and in vitro diagnostic devices
+Added: and ensure a high level of safety and health while supporting innovation.
+Added: The Medical Device
+Added: Regulation was meant to become applicable three years after publication (in May 2020).
+Added: However, in April 2020, to allow EEA national
+Added: authorities, notified bodies, manufacturers and other actors to focus fully on urgent priorities related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the
+Added: European Council and Parliament adopted Regulation 2020/561, postponing the date of application of the Medical Device Regulation by one
+Added: The Medical Device Regulation became applicable on May 26, 2021.
+Added: Devices lawfully placed on the market pursuant to the EU Medical
+Added: Devices Directive prior to May 26, 2021 may generally continue to be made available on the market or put into service until May 26, 2025.
+Added: The Medical Devices Regulation, among other things:
+Added: · strengthens
+Added: the rules on placing devices on the market and reinforces surveillance once they are available;
+Added: · establishes
+Added: explicit provisions on manufacturers’ responsibilities for the follow-up of the quality,
+Added: performance and safety of devices placed on the market;
+Added: the traceability of medical devices throughout the supply chain to the end-user or patient
+Added: through a unique identification number;
+Added: up a central database to provide patients, healthcare professionals and the public with comprehensive
+Added: information on products available in the EU;
+Added: · strengthens
+Added: rules for the assessment of certain high-risk devices, such as implants, which may have to
+Added: undergo an additional check by experts before they are placed on the market.
+Added: Today, in the United
+Added: States, only three companies are commercializing insulin pumps to type 1 diabetes patients and insulin treated type 2 diabetes patients:
+Added: - commercializes the durable Minimed 770G also offering older durable pumps still in use
+Added: (e.g., the 670G, 630G etc.).
+Added: In 2020, they held approximately 51% of the US insulin pump
+Added: - commercializes the durable t:slim X2 pump (with or without algorithms - Basal-IQ and Control-IQ).
+Added: In 2020, they held approximately 28% of the US insulin pump market.
+Added: - commercializes the disposable Omnipod patch pump with about 19% of the US market in 2020.
+Added: Older insulin pumps
+Added: are also still being used by a minority of patients previously provided by Roche or Animas, though these pumps are not commercialized
+Added: To a lesser extent, the pumps described below are also used in small numbers.
+Added: These three insulin
+Added: pump offerings are vying for the attention of the most motivated and well insured in hope of converting them away from their reliance
+Added: on multi-day insulin injections.
+Added: The t:slim X2 and Minimed 770G each have a ~$5,000 list price that is covered through Durable Medical
+Added: Equipment (DME) reimbursement;
+Added: daily consumables and insulin are also required to complete these offerings.
+Added: These products have controllers
+Added: integrated into the pump, making them cumbersome and bulky, along with long (>20 inch) tubing between the pump and the cannular site.
+Added: The Omnipod is the third offering, a patch pump that attaches to the body for 72 hours and uses a separate controller to manage the insulin
+Added: delivery process.
+Added: Insurance coverage can be provided via DME but also via Pharmacy Benefit (PB).
+Added: The Omnipod patch pump is more expensive
+Added: per day and less accurate than other insulin pumps.
+Added: Around 32% of people living with T1D are currently using insulin pumps;
+Added: the vast majority are using one of these three offerings, a statistic that has not changed significantly over the last 5+ years.
+Added: All of these pump products
+Added: require extensive training to initiate and two to four hours per day to use and manage on an ongoing basis.
+Added: This level of sophistication
+Added: and effort along with the cost and awkwardness of these products contribute to the limited uptake.
+Added: Although there are
+Added: purely mechanical pumps available to patients with a small percentage of T2D patients are using the Zealand V-Go patch pump, a fixed
+Added: basal rate and a button to deliver small boluses.
+Added: This pump is simple to use though gives little performance decision to the user (no
+Added: possibility to change the basal rate, no possibility to stop bolus doses, small reservoir, pump that needs to be changed every day, etc.).
+Added: The last available patch pump is provided by Cequr, called Simplicity, a bolus-only delivery option without basal delivery that is yet
+Added: to be available.
+Added: In the future, Medtronic
+Added: intends to launch a new version of their insulin pump, the Minimed 780G, already available in some European countries with an advanced
+Added: algorithm, but no obvious change in hardware.
+Added: Tandem is currently developing a patch pump called t:sport, coupled with an algorithm with
+Added: potential launch expected in summer 2022.
+Added: The t:sport should have a small 2mL reservoir and would be controlled by a separate unit as
+Added: is the current Omnipod.
+Added: Insulet should launch in the coming quarters the Omnipod 5, a similar patch pump to their offering today, that
+Added: includes an algorithm.
+Added: Approximately 71% of
+Added: the people who rely upon MDI choose to not administer a shot outside of their house, which creates a poorly controlled group.
+Added: product is designed to focus upon a segment of these people and mobilize them via a simple, easy to use, affordable product.
+Added: Our success depends
+Added: in part on our ability to obtain patents and trademarks, maintain trade secret and know-how protection, enforce our proprietary rights
+Added: against infringers, and operate without infringing on the proprietary rights of third parties.
+Added: Because of the length of time and expense
+Added: associated with developing new products and bringing them through the regulatory approval process, the health care industry places considerable
+Added: emphasis on obtaining patent protection and maintaining trade secret protection for new technologies, products, processes, know-how,
As of March 31, 2022,
−Removed: 2021, we had 20 employees all of whom are located in the United States, consisting of 16 in research and development and manufacturing
−Removed: operations and 4 in marketing and general and administrative functions.
−Removed: Medtronic, Inc.,
−Removed: Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.
−Removed: and Insulet Corporation are all much larger companies with substantially greater resources than us
−Removed: that make similar products for the more sophisticated, technically capable person with diabetes.
−Removed: We do not intend to directly
−Removed: compete for those individuals with diabetes, instead we intend to offer a simple to use more cost-effective solution to attract
−Removed: the more mainstream patients.
−Removed: Intellectual Property
−Removed: depends in part on our ability to obtain patents and trademarks, maintain trade secret and know-how protection, enforce our proprietary
−Removed: rights against infringers, and operate without infringing on the proprietary rights of third parties.
−Removed: Because of the length of
−Removed: time and expense associated with developing new products and bringing them through the regulatory approval process, the health
−Removed: care industry places considerable emphasis on obtaining patent protection and maintaining trade secret protection for new technologies,
−Removed: products, processes, know-how, and methods.
−Removed: 31, 2021, we had six pending U.S.
−Removed: utility patent applications, two pending foreign patent applications and
−Removed: two pending international PCT patent applications on various aspects of our technology, including our proprietary fluid
−Removed: movement technology.
−Removed: There can be no assurance that the pending patent applications will result in the issuance of patents,
−Removed: that patents issued to or licensed by us will not be challenged or circumvented by competitors, or that these patents will be
−Removed: found to be valid or sufficiently broad to protect our technology or provide us with a competitive advantage.
−Removed: Corporate History and Background
−Removed: We were formed
−Removed: as a corporation under the laws of the State of Nevada in October 1998 under the name Bear Lake Recreation Inc.
−Removed: We had no material
−Removed: business operations from 2002 until July 2017, when we acquired Quasuras, Inc., a Delaware corporation (Quasuras), in the Acquisition
−Removed: (as defined below).
−Removed: Prior to the Acquisition, and, since at least 2002, we were a shell company, as defined in Rule 12b-2 promulgated
−Removed: under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the Exchange Act).
−Removed: Block Acquisition.
−Removed: On April 26, 2017, pursuant to a Common Stock Purchase Agreement, dated as of April 5,
−Removed: 2017, by and among Manchester Explorer, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (Manchester Explorer), the Company and certain persons
−Removed: named therein, Manchester Explorer purchased from us 2,900,000 shares of our common stock representing in excess of a majority
−Removed: of our then issued and outstanding common stock, for a purchase price of $375,000 (the Control Block Acquisition), resulting in
−Removed: a change in control of the Company.
+Added: we had one issued U.S.
+Added: utility patent, five published U.S.
+Added: utility patents, two pending foreign patent applications, and two pending
+Added: international PCT patent applications covering various aspects of our technology, including our proprietary fluid movement technology.
+Added: There can be no assurance that the pending patent applications will result in the issuance of patents, that patents issued to or licensed
+Added: by us will not be challenged or circumvented by competitors, or that these patents will be found to be valid or sufficiently broad to
+Added: protect our technology or provide us with a competitive advantage.
+Added: Our annual reports
+Added: on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to such reports filed or furnished pursuant
+Added: to section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as well as section 16 reports on Form 3, 4, or 5, are available free
+Added: of charge on our website at www.modular-medical.com.
+Added: as soon as it is reasonably practicable after they are filed or furnished with the
+Added: Our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics and the charters for the Audit Committee, Compensation Committee and Nominating and Governance
+Added: Committee are also available on our website.
+Added: The Code of Business Conduct and charters are also available in print to any shareholder
+Added: upon request without charge.
+Added: Requests for such documents should be directed to Corporate Secretary, at Modular Medical, Inc., 16772 W.
+Added: Bernardo Drive, San Diego CA 92127.
+Added: Our Internet website and the information contained on it or connected to it are not part of, or incorporated
+Added: by, reference into this prospectus.
+Added: Our filings with the SEC are also available on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov.
+Added: History and Background
+Added: We were formed as a
+Added: corporation under the laws of the State of Nevada in October 1998 under the name Bear Lake Recreation Inc.
+Added: We had no material business
+Added: operations from 2002 until July 2017, when we acquired Quasuras, Inc., a Delaware corporation, in the Control Block Acquisition (as defined
+Added: Prior to the Control Block Acquisition, we were a shell company, as defined in Rule 12b-2 promulgated under the Securities Exchange
+Added: Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”).
+Added: Control Block Acquisition.
+Added: On April 26, 2017, pursuant to a Common Stock Purchase
+Added: Agreement, dated as of April 5, 2017, by and among Manchester Explorer, LP, a Delaware limited partnership, we and certain persons named
+Added: therein, Manchester Explorer, LP purchased from us 966,667 shares of our Common Stock representing in excess of a majority of our then
+Added: issued and outstanding Common Stock, for a purchase price of $375,000 (the “Control Block Acquisition”), resulting in a change
+Added: in control of the Company.
In connection with the Control Block Acquisition, James E.
−Removed: Besser was appointed president
−Removed: and a director and Morgan C.
−Removed: Frank was appointed the chief executive officer, chief financial officer, secretary, treasurer and
−Removed: a director of ours and immediately following such appointments, our then officers and directors resigned.
−Removed: Besser is the managing
−Removed: member of and Mr.
−Removed: Frank is the portfolio manager and a consultant to Manchester Management Company, LLC, a Delaware limited liability
−Removed: company MMC).
−Removed: MMC is the general partner of Manchester Explorer and Jeb Partners, L.P.
−Removed: (Jeb Partners, and together with Manchester
−Removed: Explorer, collectively, the Purchasing Funds).
−Removed: The Acquisition.
−Removed: July 24, 2017, pursuant to a Reorganization and Share Exchange Agreement, by and among the Company, Paul M.
−Removed: DiPerna, the sole
−Removed: officer, director and a controlling stockholder of Quasuras, Messrs.
+Added: Besser was appointed president and a director and
+Added: Frank was appointed the chief executive officer, chief financial officer, secretary, treasurer and a director of ours and immediately
+Added: following such appointments, our then officers and directors resigned.
+Added: Besser is the managing member of and Mr.
+Added: Frank is the portfolio
+Added: manager and a consultant to Manchester Management Company, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company also referred to herein as MMC.
+Added: MMC is the general partner of Manchester Explorer, LP and Jeb Partners, L.P.
+Added: (Jeb Partners, and together with Manchester Explorer, LP,
+Added: collectively, the Purchasing Funds).
+Added: On July 24, 2017, pursuant to a Reorganization and Share Exchange Agreement,
+Added: by and among us, Paul M.
+Added: DiPerna, the sole officer, director and a controlling stockholder of Quasuras, Messrs.
Besser and Frank (Messrs.
−Removed: Besser, Frank and DiPerna, collectively,
−Removed: the 3 Quasuras Shareholders), and Quasuras (the Share Exchange Agreement), we acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares
−Removed: of Quasuras owned by the 3 Quasuras Shareholders, resulting in Quasuras becoming our wholly-owned subsidiary (the Acquisition).
−Removed: Simultaneously with the closing of the Acquisition, Manchester Explorer cancelled the 2,900,000 shares of our common stock purchased
−Removed: in the Control Block Acquisition, Mr.
−Removed: Besser resigned as our president and a director and Mr.
−Removed: Frank resigned as our chief executive
−Removed: officer, chief financial officer, secretary, and treasurer, but remained a director, and Mr.
−Removed: DiPerna was appointed our chairman
−Removed: of the board of directors, chief executive officer, chief financial officer, secretary and treasurer.
−Removed: In anticipation
−Removed: of the closing of the Acquisition, on June 27, 2017, we changed our name from “Bear Lake Recreation, Inc.”
−Removed: to “Modular
−Removed: Medical, Inc.”
−Removed: and changed our trading symbol from “BLKE”
−Removed: to “MODD.”
−Removed: 2017, we filed a Current Report on Form 8-K, as amended (the Super 8-K), with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC)
−Removed: disclosing the Acquisition and related transactions, and, upon such filing, we ceased being a shell company.
−Removed: Smaller Reporting Company
−Removed: We are subject
−Removed: to the reporting requirements of Section 13 of the Exchange Act and to the disclosure requirements of Regulation S-K of the SEC,
−Removed: as a “smaller reporting company.”
−Removed: Such designation relieves us of some of the disclosure requirements of Regulation
−Removed: Available Information
−Removed: Our website address is www.modular-medical.com.
−Removed: The information in our website is not incorporated by reference into this report.
−Removed: We file reports
−Removed: with the SEC and make available, free of charge, on or through our website, our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports
−Removed: on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, proxy and information statements and amendments to these reports filed or furnished
−Removed: pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material
−Removed: with, or furnish it to, the SEC.
−Removed: All SEC filings are also available at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
+Added: Besser, Frank and DiPerna, collectively, the “3 Quasuras Shareholders”), and Quasuras, Inc.
+Added: (the “Share Exchange Agreement”),
+Added: we acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares of Quasuras, Inc.
+Added: owned by the 3 Quasuras Shareholders, resulting in Quasuras, Inc.
+Added: becoming our wholly-owned subsidiary (the “Acquisition”).
+Added: Simultaneously with the closing of the Acquisition, Manchester
+Added: Explorer, LP cancelled the 2,900,000 shares of our Common Stock purchased in the Control Block Acquisition, Mr.
+Added: Besser resigned as our
+Added: president and a director and Mr.
+Added: Frank resigned as our chief executive officer, chief financial officer, secretary, and treasurer, but
+Added: remained a director, and Mr.
+Added: DiPerna was appointed our chairman of the board of directors, chief executive officer, chief financial officer,
+Added: president, secretary and treasurer.
+Added: DiPerna served as our chief executive officer until August 2021 and as our secretary until October
+Added: Quasuras, Inc., a Delaware
+Added: corporation, is our only subsidiary.
+Added: As of March 31,
+Added: 2022, we had 25 employees all of whom are located in the United States, consisting of 23 in research and development
+Added: and manufacturing operations and 2 in general and administrative functions.
+Added: Our corporate facility
+Added: is leased and located at 16772 West Bernardo Drive, San Diego, CA 92127.
+Added: The 39-month lease term commenced April 1, 2020, and provides
+Added: for an initial monthly rent of approximately $12,400 with annual rent increases of approximately 3%.
+Added: In addition to the minimum lease
+Added: payments, we are responsible for property taxes, insurance and certain other operating costs.
+Added: We believe that our existing facility is
+Added: adequate to meet our current needs.
+Added: We are a Nevada corporation.
+Added: Our corporate headquarters and operating facilities are located at 16772 West Bernardo Drive, San Diego, CA 92127 Our telephone number
+Added: is (858) 800-3500.
+Added: We maintain a website at www.modular-medical.com.
+Added: Medtronic, Inc., Tandem
+Added: Diabetes Care, Inc.
+Added: and Insulet Corporation are all much larger companies with substantially greater resources than us that make similar
+Added: products for the more sophisticated, technically capable person with diabetes.
+Added: We do not intend to directly compete for those individuals
+Added: with diabetes, instead we intend to offer a simple to use more cost-effective solution to attract the more mainstream patients.
+Added: Reporting Company
+Added: We are subject to the
+Added: reporting requirements of Section 13 of the Exchange Act and to the disclosure requirements of Regulation S-K of the SEC, as a “smaller
+Added: reporting company.” Such designation relieves us of some of the disclosure requirements of Regulation S-K.
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