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Asset Impairments
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2022
Property, Plant and Equipment [Abstract]  
Asset Impairments ASSET IMPAIRMENTS
The government in China has launched regional and national programs for volume-based procurement ("VBP") of high-value medical consumables to reduce healthcare costs. Each VBP program has specific requirements to award contracts to the lowest bidders who are able to satisfy the quality and quantity requirements. The successful bidders may be guaranteed sales volume for certain products, while unsuccessful bidders may lose unit sales volume. The prices required for a successful bid have negatively impacted our existing commercial operations of joint replacement and trauma products in China.
As a result of the outcome of certain regional programs for our trauma products and the national VBP program for hips and knees we recorded charges of $105 to impair certain long-lived and intangible assets in the third quarter of 2021. These charges were included in selling, general and administrative expenses. The national VBP program for spine products took place in the third quarter of 2022 and we were unsuccessful in our bid. As a result we are exiting the spine business in China. Asset impairments recorded in the three months 2022 were not significant. Our total business in China represented approximately 2.5% of our revenues for the nine months 2022.