Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012
Public bill · Government · Presented
The Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012 would allow pharmacists, with a patient’s agreement, to substitute cheaper equivalent medicines for prescribed branded products, while requiring the lowest-cost option when medicines are prescribed by their common name. It would give the HSE power to publish and manage a reimbursement list, set prices and reference prices, and attach safety or cost-effectiveness conditions; patients choosing a product costing more than the reference price could pay the difference.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to establish a list of groups of interchangeable medicinal products which may be substituted for each other in order to enable savings to be made for patients or the Health Service Executive, or both, where the lower priced medicinal products are supplied, to establish a list of drugs, medicines and medical and surgical appliances which may be supplied under section 59 of the Health Act 1970, to establish mechanisms to set the prices of such drugs, medicines and medical and surgical appliances where they are so supplied, to rename the Irish Medicines Board, to provide for the consequential amendment of other enactments; and for related matters
Last updated 12 April 2018
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- Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage Dáil
- Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) Dáil
- Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012: Committee Stage Select Sub-Committee on Health
- Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) Dáil
- Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Referral to Select Committee Dáil
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