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Companies seek higher ceiling prices for advanced coronary stentsThe Standing National Committee on Medicines (SNCM), in its recommendation, included coronary stents in the NLEM, 2022 in two categories --...
Stents price capping has improved its accessibility: Drug pricing regulator NPPAAccording to the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) both stent manufactured and imported went up from 9.36 lakh in 2016 to 13...
It’s official, Indian-made stents as good as the bestA study presented two months back had also concluded that another Indian stent, Supra Flex was as good as Xience.
Abbott India stops importing Xience Alpine stentsAbbott becomes the first company to officially stop imports of the drug-eluting cardiac stents on account of the price curbs.
NPPA not to stop withdrawal of stents from marketThe authority had asked the companies to consider options for price revision before deciding to withdraw their products from the market.
Surgical strike! Prices of drug eluting stents cutCoronary stents are wire mesh tubes inserted into coronary arteries to clear blockages and prevent heart attacks.
Drug eluting stents expected to get cheaperThe maximum price that patients should pay for drug eluting, bioresorbable vascular and biodegradable coronary stents was reduced to Rs 27,...
Stent makers want government to apply differential pricing for Drug-eluting stentsDrug-eluting stents (DES) have a polymer coating over mesh that emits a drug over time that prevent blockage of arteries from recurring.
Stent Abbott wants to pull out is `identical' to othersAbbott is selling its drug eluting stents, including the Xience Alpine, for the equivalent of Rs 29,000 to Rs 33,000 in many European count...
Government increases stent prices by around 2 per centThe prices of bare metal stents have gone up to Rs 7,400 from the earlier announced prices of Rs 7,260.
NPPA asks hospitals, stent makers to list prices on websitesThe instructions are being issued in public interest for compliance of ceiling prices by stent makers, distributors and hospitals, the NPPA...
First India-made dissolvable stent gets ministry nodUnlike drug-eluting stents that are made of metal and stay in the arteries forever, Meril’s 100 micron-thick BVS ‘MeRes100’ is made of mate...
NPPA to soon fix ceiling prices of stentsThe decision of the Department of Pharmaceuticals comes months after the Ministry of Health in July included stents in the National List of...
Bare-metal stents not inferior to costlier drug-eluting ones: Norwegian studyThe 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...
Cardiological Society of India urges govt to involve it in the process of fixing stent pricesIn a letter to the secretary in the health ministry, the 4,500-member grouping has suggested that stents should be considered under differe...
Indian study on treating diabetics with heart ailments gets global recognitionAs per the findings, the use of Everolimus eluting stents may be equally or more useful in treating coronary blockages in diabetic patients...
Capping cardiac stent prices gets NHSRC backingThe final parameters to fix prices of stents will be based on the findings in the NHSRC report and the price lists submitted by manufacture...
New generation of DES stents to be introduced soon in IndiaResolute Onyx DES which features the Core Wire Technology has thinner struts to help improve deliverability without compromising radial str...
Patients pay three times import price for stentsMost patients are forced to pay anything between Rs 60,000 and Rs 1 lakh or more for cardiac drug eluting stents (DES).
- Rivals to benefit as J&J exits from heart stents
The decision of Johnson&Johnson to stop making its popular drug eluting stent has opened up new opportunities for competitors Abbott & Bost...