The government has authorized the increase in the values charged by pharmaceutical companies. The adjustment takes into account the HICP
A federal government resolution published on Thursday 28 authorizes pharmaceutical companies to do so increase the prices of medicines from this Sunday31.
In the text published in official diary of the Union, the price increase has a maximum ceiling of 4.5%, a value defined on the basis of the Broad National Consumer Price Index – IPCAone of the most traditional and important inflation indices in Brazil and which serves as the main parameter to adjust the values of goods and services.
The resolution also establishes that manufacturing companies must make the increase in the prices of their medicines clear to consumers and pharmacies must make the comparative increases available so that it can be certified that they have not been higher than the prices published by the Regulatory Chamber on the Anvisa portal. .
Drug manufacturers and pharmacies will be able to choose whether to apply this adjustment immediately or dilute it until March next year, when the Medicines Market Regulatory Chamber will have to release new adjustment rules and standards if it deems it necessary.
Source: Terra
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