PHARMAC to fund oral anticoagulant Xarelto without restrictions

30 July 2018

From August 1, patients in New Zealand will have access to German pharma major Bayer’s (BAYN: DE) oral anticoagulant Xarelto(rivaroxaban), used for preventing stroke and treating or preventing blood clots.

The drug will be fully funded, without restrictions, by the Pharmaceutical Management Agency PHARMAC and can be prescribed to any patient where considered clinically appropriate.

The funding decision will remove restrictions on who can prescribe Xarelto along with the conditions that it can be used to treat, and will provide an additional treatment option alongside currently funded treatments such as warfarin and dabigatran.

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