Maharashtra FDA plans to approach the NPPA regarding exorbitant drug prices. The agency is examining data and will take action against unet...

The hospitals sector has been under the regulatory scanner lately with the NPPA announcing price caps on stents last February and on knee i...

The hospitals have been the “major beneficiaries” of profit in all these cases because they inflated the maximum retail prices of the produ...

Four hospitals in the NCR marked up the retail prices of such medicines as much as 12-fold from the rates at which they were purchased, NPP...

NPPA's study found that "the major beneficiaries of profits in all these cases because of inflated MRPs have been hospitals rather than dru...

The drug pricing watchdog has threatened action against these hospitals, which were expected to make the revised prices available online so...

A total knee system can cost a patient as much as Rs 4.13 lakh and a minimum of Rs 59,091, while import prices ranged between Rs 23,408 and...

Through this move, NPPA has plugged the gap for ‘manipulating’ trade margins in coronary stents, the regulator’s chairman stated on Twitter.

Instances have come to the notice of NPPA that few companies dealing with coronary stents have come up with freebies by announcing schemes.

The regulator has been taking several steps to ensure stents are available under its prescribed price list as reports emerged that there we...

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) said the matter would end there for such hospitals if there were no further complaints.

These show cause notices have been sent after preliminary investigations into these allegations, the regulator disclosed on its official ac...

We have not overcharged even a single patient for stent. We have complied fully and immediately with the NPPA order on stent pricing, a Max...

The department of pharmaceutical has also invoked special provisions under the DPCO to ensure compliance with the pricing order as well as ...

In case of non-compliance of NPPA's instructions, the regulator said it may be constrained to invoke provisions of legal prosecution under ...

Last week, the government had slashed prices of stents by up to 85 per cent by capping them at Rs 7,260 for bare metal ones and Rs 29,600 f...

Now, patients purchasing stents at their maximum price won’t pay hospitals margins of more than Rs 2,400 on DES and BVS and about Rs 581 on...