India's National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority approved a hike in the prices of cardiac stents by 4.2 percent. A bare metal stent will now cost no more than $120, while the drug-eluting stent will cost a maximum of $436. Additionally, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority revised retail prices of 871...
India Regulator to Review Stent Price Controls
In July 2016, the Government of India decided to cap the prices of drug-eluting and bare-metal stents, and in February 2017, the ceiling price of bare metal stents was set at $108, while the price of drug-eluting stents was set at $442 before taxes, which for some products was a...
India Requests Medical Device Makers for Price Lists
Concerned about reports of rising prices of medical devices including stents, the Indian government has asked device makers to review their pricing and submit details of the maximum retail price of their products to the Indian drug regulator National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority, the entity that also oversees medical devices pricing. “There have...