Health & Environment
Karnataka Flags Massive Price Markups on High-Cost Medicines
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THE BRIEF
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The Karnataka government flagged major price disparities between institutional landing costs and Maximum Retail Prices for essential medicines and cancer drugs supplied to hospitals.
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Investigations by the Food Safety and Drug Administration revealed markups ranging from 10 times to over 52 times the actual procurement cost across 253 drugs.
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Karnataka wrote to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare seeking mandatory cost-to-MRP transparency on patient bills and price controls.