Pilot project on state regulation of prices for medicine for hypertensives to be prolonged in 2014
During the
Government’s session held on February 12, 2014, there was endorsed a resolution
on prolonging the pilot project on state regulation of prices for medicines
from hypertension. The Minister of Healthcare of Ukraine Rayisa
Bohatyryova informed during a teleconference at the Cabinet
of Ministers of Ukraine called “Results and prospects of introducing the state
regulation of prices for medical means for hypertensive patients and patients
with diabetes”.
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According to her, apart
from furthering of the term of realization the project the resolution envisages
an opportunity to reimburse to the drugstores the cost of medications sold in
December of 2013. “Moreover, the Government’s resolution envisages transition
of a medicine from the II to the I group on reimbursement of its cost, which
facilitates reducing prices for such medicines and raises the level of
availability and providing the patients with them,” the Minister stressed. Besides, Rayisa Bohatyryova
stressed that the State Budget of Ukraine for 2014 contained the fund for
subvention to the local budgets for the partial reimbursement of the cost of
medications for the patients with hypertension in the amount of UAH 191 636.3
thousand. |