Coronary stents set to get cheaper
- The DoP issued a notification on Wednesday putting bare metal stents, drug eluting stents and biodegradable stents in schedule-I of the DPCO.
- This means that the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) can now start the process of fixing ceiling prices for them.
- According to the Cardiology Society of India, 4.2 lakh angioplasties were performed in India in 2015 with an estimated 95% of the stents used being drug eluting. With no price control on stents, at an avera ge price of Rs 80,000 for a drug eluting stent, about Rs 3,000 crore was being spent annually by patients on such stents.
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