High costs of 24 medical devices trigger suspicion; govt seeks price details
While the prices of four categories of medical devices - coronary stents, drug-eluting stents, condoms, and intrauterine devices - are already fixed by NPPA, the prices of the rest are fixed by the manufacturers themselves
Joe C Mathew | February 22, 2021 | Updated 12:39 IST
All medical devices are now regulated under Drugs Act though only 37 have so far been notified for compliance
India s medicine price regulator National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has given three weeks time to manufacturers and importers of 24 categories of medical devices to furnish pricing details of all such products.