The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has amended a number of legal acts regarding reference pricing for certain medicines that are purchased at the expense of money from the state budget. This is reported by the Government Portal.

Thus, the Cabinet of Ministers introduced marginal wholesale prices for medicines purchased at the expense of the state budget.. The Decree also applies to drugs included in the National List of Medicines and for which a state assessment of medical technologies was carried out..

The Cabinet of Ministers said that since the beginning of a full-scale war in Ukraine, there has been an increase in prices for medicines. Sometimes unreasonable. Therefore, it became necessary to expand the current mechanism of reference pricing.

Hospitals can save.

A fixed wholesale price will now be set for medicines on the National List of Medicines, which will allow hospitals to use such medicines affordably without spending all of their budgeted funds..

“This will positively affect the access of Ukrainians to effective drugs. Most hospitals will be able to order all the necessary medicines in large volumes to provide quality patient care,” the report says..

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