{"id":922546,"date":"2026-10-10T02:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T02:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/922546\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T02:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T02:38:17","slug":"broad-daylight-dacoity-drug-prices-in-six-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/922546\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Broad daylight dacoity\u2019: Drug prices in six questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/134810357.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>TNNUpdated: Oct 09, 2026, 16:41 IST IST<\/p>\n<p>A cancer drug supplied to a retailer for Rs 2,700 carried a Rs 27,000 MRP. After the Supreme Court questioned the gap, TOI examines where the money can go and what might lower patients\u2019 bills<\/p>\n<p>Under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 2013, ceiling prices were fixed for 3,482 medicines, of which 1,924 are diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular drugs.<br \/>These medicines, classified as scheduled or essential drugs, represent about 18% of the domestic pharma retail market, valued at around Rs 3 lakh crore. Their prices are revised annually based on the Wholesale Price Index for the preceding calendar year, on April 1. The remaining medicines are non-scheduled drugs and face no price cap. Their prices may be increased by up to 10% in a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TNNUpdated: Oct 09, 2026, 16:41 IST IST A cancer drug supplied to a retailer for Rs 2,700 carried&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[215485,490198,64,63,490192,490199,137,490194,490197,490193,490,43606,490196,490195],"class_list":["post-922546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-215485","tag-aidan-all-india-drug-action-network","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-drug-pricing-regulations","tag-drugs-prices-control-order","tag-health","tag-high-maximum-retail-prices-mrp","tag-hospital-procurement-policies","tag-medical-device-pricing","tag-medication","tag-national-pharmaceutical-pricing-authority","tag-patient-pricing-transparency","tag-pharmaceutical-trade-margins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}