National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) is planning for cutting down the prices of more medical devices. It is the next big step after the reduction of cardiac STENT price, which could relieve the cost burden of essential healthcare service for common people. An intense scrutiny for manufacturing and selling cost of many lifesaving medical devices has been started by NPPA, India. As per the remark of NPPA chairman to a leading newspaper they have taken serious steps for collecting data on prices of several medical devices on a war-footing.
This will give them a fair idea about the volume of consumption, cost of manufacturing and price at which the devices are supplied to a patient. Exorbitant pricing in the health system will be dealt with strongly as per NPPA. After cardiac stents, now it’s time for 14 more medical devices whose price will be slashed down. As per NPPA, these…
