India's NPPA brings many more drug formulations under price control

15 March 2016

A small notification by Indian drug price regulator the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has ensured that drug formulations under price control have risen to over 800, reports The Pharma Letter’s India correspondent.

The government has brought more medicines, used for the treatment of diseases such as cancer, HIV/AIDS, analgesics and cardiovascular diseases, under its purview.

The Department of Pharmaceuticals has notified an amendment of the Schedule I of Drug Price Control Order (DPCO) 2013, for substituting the National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM) 2011 by NLEM 2015. What this has effectively done is bring on board 200 formulations under the price cap. Under NLEM 2011, there were 628 drug formulations that were under price control.

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