Councellor health: Medicament manufacturers lower from today on the prices

RatgeberGesundheit.de is a free encyclopedia, which is written not by a firm, paid editorship, but by freiwilligen authors. (openPR) - numerous medicines are from today on cheaper to have: Two German large Pharmaunternehmen lower the prices for several hundred preparations.

Frankfurt - the two Generika manufacturers Ratiopharm and Stada announced to lower to 15 January the prices for numerous preparations. Generika are „imitator medicines “: If the patent protection for a means ran out, also different companies something similar or identical can preparations with the same active substances to manufacture. Stada and Ratiopharm do that. Background for the price reduction is a law from May 2006. Ratiopharm will reduce, communicated its medicament prices on broad level the Ulmer enterprise. With the new approximately 400 price reductions then more than 850 Ratiopharm medicines are released from the additional payment.

With Stada, which is number three on the German Generikamarkt after Ratiopharm, according to data of a firm speaker with the step now all medicines, with which the health insurance companies make it possible, of which additional payment released. The two companies did not call the height of the price reductions. With Stada they are to be however clearly under the volume of the price reductions from July 2006, when Vilbeler the prices for numerous Generikaprodukte in the German market in the point had reduced the bath by more than 50 per cent. With the competitors Hexal and Betapharm first no statement was available.

With at the 1. May 2006 into force stepped medicament economy law (AVWG) the amounts were reduced, which take over the legal health insurance companies maximally with the medicine purchase. Patients, who get particularly low-priced medicaments ordered, must besides no more additional payment carry out. To November further 130 groups of medicaments with comparable effect („groups of fixed amounts “) are under this regulation please. And since at the beginning of of 2007 falls for Generikahersteller the manufacturer discount of ten per cent, if its medicines are particularly cheap and the prices are around at least 30 per cent under the maximum refunding border. If they lie above it, go ten per cent from proceeds of sale to the legal health insurance companies. In order to go around the anticipated payment, Stada and Ratiopharm the prices lower.

A speaker of Stada said, on the financial goals of the enterprise the discounts would not have an effect. Stada will not change its company prognosis. The enterprise had promised a durable operational company growth for the past year, whereby the yield should rise superproportionally to the conversion. „Price reductions are for a Generikaunternehmen daily business and are intended also in our budgets for 2007 “, said the speaker.

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