As per the new prices notified by the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), a bare metal stent (BMS) would now cost Rs 8,261, w...

The authority had asked the companies to consider options for price revision before deciding to withdraw their products from the market.

The government on February 13 slashed by up to 85 per cent the prices of life-saving coronary stents, tiny metal tubes inserted into the na...

The prices of bare metal stents have gone up to Rs 7,400 from the earlier announced prices of Rs 7,260.

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) had notified the ceiling price of coronary stents at Rs 7,260 for bare metal stent and...

As per the government, the NPPA was closely monitoring the situation and has alerted the state governments and state drugs controllers to m...

The instructions are being issued in public interest for compliance of ceiling prices by stent makers, distributors and hospitals, the NPPA...

"Precision of any medical intervention is critical as we cannot afford to have non-certified medical devices in the market," she said.

It is pertinent to mention that 8 per cent maximum margin has been built into the calculation of the ceiling price of the coronary stents",...

Medical facilities, including retailers and dealers of stents, will also have to display price list of stents on a part of their premises w...

The average MRP for BMS was Rs 45,000 and for DES, it was Rs 1.21 lakh. The govt has asked companies to change the MRP of existing stock.

The body has proposed that ceiling prices of drug-eluting stents (DES) be fixed at rates ranging between Rs21,881 to Rs67,272—less than 50%...

The observation comes at a time when India has decided to clamp price controls on stents and the govt is engaged with stakeholders in a rag...

The number of stent procedures in India trebled over the last five years, according to the National Interventional Council (NIC) registry 2...

The government is moving ahead with its plan to cap prices of coronary or cardiac stents and is expected to take a final decision by the en...

The final parameters to fix prices of stents will be based on the findings in the NHSRC report and the price lists submitted by manufacture...

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