Most expensive remedies rose 7.5% in April.
Ang drug prices they rose between 5.35% and 7.16% in April compared to March, according to ADEMP, the Association of Private Medicine Entities.
This is an amount similar to consultants ’general inflation estimates. However, with prepaid they warn of that there are already some laboratories that send pharmacies two uploads per monthsomething that never happened before.
The work maintains that “several laboratories have repeated the approach begun last month of post two increases in the same month “.
ADEMP added: “Casasco, Roemmers, Bagó, Bernabó, Raffo, Baliarda, Finadiet, Bayer, Mar, Synthon Bagó, Gramon Millet and Montpellier repeated retail price increases in some cases less than 20 days apart.
The retail price (RRP) of remedies that do not require a prescription sold, and lacking social security discounts, increased by 5.35% last month, according to a report made based on Pharmascope data. And those given prescriptions were up 5.38% in April. On the other hand, high value drugs rose 7.16%.
“One of the justifications of the pharmaceutical industry is that the retail price (RRP) of medicines is attached to the exchange rate, due to the participation of imported inputs in its production. however, the PVP changed by 20.42% in January/April 2022 while the official exchange rate grew by 11.9% during that period ”according to data from the Central Bank, the Report said.
The survey again shows a large difference between prices of medicines of different brands with the both active ingredientssaid the Report.
Ang Over-the-counter drugs represent 27.5% of the market in units and participate in 12% of the total charged.
High -cost drugs have a significant impact on the budgets of social security funding entities. The member has full coverage but the costs for social activities and hospital institutions are high impact. The largest increase in this case: 7.16% per month.
To establish year-on-year inflation, 66 consumer and prescription products were analyzed. In this method year-on-year inflation for medicines in April was 56%.
This is a value similar to the overall price index estimate for the same month, but higher than that established with the same methodology for remedies in 2021, which was 44.6%.
ADEMP suggests that pharmacies actually apply generics law within a system reform, because in many cases the patient is, for the same drug, there are many options to choose from, with significant price differences. And a method of payment for dispensation service, where the pharmacist receives a fixed amountindependent of the price of the drug.
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Source: Clarin
