Knee Implant Price List

  August 23, 2017

According to the Government notification F.No 8(48)/2017/DP/NPPA/Div II

‘Osteoarthritis is likely to become fourth leading cause of disability by year 2020’ as per the W.H.O Bulletin,2003 ,81,(9) and India is likely to be one of the leading countries of such immobilized citizens in terms of numbers; and whereas preventing such a scenario is essential in individual as well as national interest. And whereas the Government is under constitutional obligation to provide fair, reasonable and affordable price for orthopedic implants and therefore its immediate intervention is imperative to check unethical profiteering and exploitive pricing at the cost of the patients in an unregulated market; and whereas Paragraph 19 of the DPCO, 2013 inter- alia authorizes the Government, in extraordinary circumstances, if it considers necessary so to do in public interest, to fix the ceiling price or retail price of any drug (i.e. notified devices) for such period, as it deems fit; Here is the Price List of Knee Implants, applicable at HCG Ahmedabad & Bhavnagar units.