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Uttar Pradesh Orders Hospital Pharmacies to Display Medicine Prices
Uttar Pradesh has introduced new rules for pharmacies.
Starting November 1, pharmacies inside hospitals must show what they pay for medicines and what they charge patients.
Retail pharmacies must also create public websites with information about their licence, pharmacist, premises and medicine stock.
They must update this information every week.
Officials say these steps will make medicine prices easier for patients to understand.
Some government medical colleges use a cost-plus approach for expensive medicines.
This means the amount patients pay is linked to what the hospital paid to buy the medicine.
The department says transparency should help patients benefit from medicines bought by institutions.
Uttar Pradesh’s Food Safety and Drug Administration ordered hospital pharmacies to display medicine purchase and sale prices from November 1.
The displayed prices are to reflect pharmacies’ actual procurement and sale rates.
Retail pharmacies must create public websites showing their licence number, appointed pharmacist, licensed premises and stock details.
Pharmacies will have to update the website information weekly.
Officials said the measures aim to improve price transparency and help patients benefit from institutional medicine procurement.
- Who
- The Uttar Pradesh Food Safety and Drug Administration and pharmacies operating across Uttar Pradesh.
- What
- Hospital pharmacies must display actual medicine procurement and sale prices; retail pharmacies must publish specified details on public websites.
- Where
- Across Uttar Pradesh.
- When
- The hospital pharmacy price-display direction takes effect November 1; website details must be updated weekly.
- Why
- To improve price transparency and ensure patients benefit from institutional procurement.
Key facts
- Issuing department
- Uttar Pradesh Food Safety and Drug Administration (UPFSDA)
- Price display begins
- November 1
- Hospital pharmacy price information
- Actual procurement and sale rates of medicines
- Retail pharmacy website information
- Licence number, appointed pharmacist, licensed premises and stock details
- Update frequency
- Weekly
- Examples of costly medicines cited
- Cancer drugs, high-end antibiotics and costly injections
- Cost-plus model
- For some government medical colleges, patient prices for expensive medicines are linked to the hospital’s actual procurement cost.
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