NPPA starts issuing notices to hospitals on stent pricing
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New Delhi: Drug price regulator National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority(NPPA) has started issuing recovery and pre-prosecution notices to hospitals for non-compliance with its guidelines on stents pricing.
The regulator has also directed hospitals to follow all instructions issued so far by it with regard to pricing of coronary stents.
"NPPA is issuing show cause notices to management of hospitals, nursing homes, institutions for recovery of overcharged amount, along with pre prosecution notices under Essential Commodities Act, 1955 to those hospitals, nursing homes, institutions which have not abided by the instructions of NPPA so far," the regulator said in a notification today.
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