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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Consumables now costlier than stents in angioplasty -Rema Nagarajan

Consumables now costlier than stents in angioplasty -Rema Nagarajan

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published Published on Feb 6, 2018   modified Modified on Feb 6, 2018
-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: Even as stent prices have been capped, the cost of the three main consumables used in angioplasty have, in many cases, become even more expensive than stents as hospitals try to make up for the huge margins they lost on stents.

The modus operandi is same as in the case of stents before the price cap. Though the consumables are bought at a third or less of the maximum retail price (MRP) printed on them, hospitals charge patients the MRP.

The total procurement cost of these three consumables — guiding catheters, balloon catheters and guiding wires — is roughly Rs 10,000-12,000. However, many hospitals are charging anything between Rs 32,000-42,000 and some even more, well above the cost of a stent, which has been capped at Rs 30,000.

In many hospitals, these consumables are also being sterilised and reused, but patients are being charged for a new one or slightly less than the MRP helping hospitals make even more profit.

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The Times of India 6 February, 2018, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/consumables-now-costlier-than-stents-in-angioplasty/articleshow/62797115.cms


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