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Industry pooling helps maintain affordability of high cost drugs despite significant inflationary pressures
21 January 2021 - In 2019, the Canadian Drug Insurance Pooling Corporation's (CDIPC) high-cost drug sharing framework provided coverage to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Jan 2021
Health Canada postpones overhaul of drug pricing for 6 months
8 January 2021 - Changes meant to bring down price of prescription drugs pushed to 1 July 2021. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Nov 2020
Drug makers offer Canada 1 billion dollars to scrap some pending pricing rules
16 November 2020 - The pharmaceutical industry has made a last-ditch C$1 billion ($761 million) proposal to the Canadian government ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Oct 2020
Health Canada releases final version of controversial regulations for controlling drug prices
23 October 2020 - After months of delay, Health Canada has released a final version of new regulations that are ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Sep 2020
Multiple factors will influence pricing for COVID-19 vaccine in Canada, says health economist
3 September 2020 - Conventional drug costing models are unlikely to apply when it comes to putting a price tag on ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Aug 2020
Return some excess drug revenues to employers, CLHIA says in submission to PMPRB
10 August 2020 - In its submission to the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board’s draft guidelines, the Canadian Life and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Aug 2020
Innovative Medicines Canada responds to the revised draft PMPRB Guidelines consultation
4 August 2020 - The Patented Medicine Prices Review Board's revised Guidelines will result in patients losing access to innovative ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Jul 2020
PMPRB changes within scope of Patent Act, rules federal court in judicial review
13 July 2020 - The Federal Court has upheld reforms to the Patented Medicines Pricing Review Board that updated the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Jun 2020
Canada federal court dismisses drug makers' plea challenging drug price rules
30 June 2020 - The federal court of Canada on Monday dismissed a plea by drug makers challenging the Canadian ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Jun 2020
IMC responds to Federal Court decision regarding PMPRB regulatory changes
29 June 2020 - Innovative Medicines Canada released the following statement today in response to the Federal Court of Canada’s ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Jun 2020
PMPRB publishes new draft guidelines, launches 30 day consultation
22 June 2020 - As reported earlier this month, the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board has published a new draft ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Jun 2020
Canada's new drug price rules pushed to next year
1 June 2020 - Canada's drug pricing agency said on Monday that new regulations aimed at lowering costs would come ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 May 2020
B.C. mom’s drug pricing petition on behalf of son garners thousands of signatures
26 May 2020 - Petition geared to gaining access to new medicines drew support of Chilliwack-Hope MP Mark Strahl. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 May 2020
Canada grapples with drug price escalation
20 May 2020 - In July 2020 Canada will implement a series of reforms to help bring runaway drug prices under ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 May 2020
Canadian prescription drug prices come under scrutiny of U.S. trade representative
1 May 2020 - The United States is keeping Canada and its plans to overhaul its drug-pricing system on a ...