CHENNAI: Following reports that medicines, medical devices and consumables bought by hospitals at discounted rates are billed to in-patients at or around the printed maximum retail price (MRP), the Directorate of Drugs Control has asked drugs inspectors to inspect selected hospitals and their attached retail pharmacies.<\/p>\n
In a communication dated October 1 to assistant directors of drugs control, S Gurubharathi, joint director of Drugs Control and Controlling Authority-cum-Licensing Authority, said inspectors must verify purchase invoices, procurement prices, MRP, sale prices and billing and initiate action if any contravention is found.<\/p>\n
Officers have been asked to check the printed MRP of certain medicines supplied through hospitals and the related stock records, with particular attention to high-value medicines and injections. <\/p>\n
Any significant variation, suspected overcharging, discrepancy in records, or violation of pricing and labelling provisions must be properly recorded and backed by relevant documents.<\/p>\n
Inspections must be completed on priority, and a consolidated report submitted to the directorate, the communication said.<\/p>\n
Where a pricing contravention is found, action will be initiated under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order (2013), Gurubharathi said. The action-taken report, along with supporting documents, must be sent to the directorate for further action, the order stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHENNAI: Following reports that medicines, medical devices and consumables bought by hospitals at discounted rates are billed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":924728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49,48,84,377,19325,317975],"class_list":["post-924727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-medicines","tag-tamil-nadu-drugs-control-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}