NPPA extends price fixation on orthopaedics

THE National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has extended the ceiling price fixation it imposed on orthopaedic knee implants for knee replacement system for two more months, up to November 15, 2025.

- Gireesh Babu, New Delhi

The ceiling price of orthopaedic knee implants has been fixed or revised since August 16, 2017 in public interest and the price notification has been in force up to September 15, 2025. The drug price regulator said that the representations from manufacturers and industry associations received by the Authority are under consideration.

The NPPA said that it extends the period for which the notification issued on September 10, 2024, extending the ceiling price till September 15, 2025, "shall be in force in respect of orthopaedic knee implants for knee replacement system for a further period of up to two months beyond the 15th September, 2025, i.e., up to the 15th November, 2025, unless amended by a subsequent notification."

The notification on September 10, 2024 has capped the worked-out ceiling price of knee replacement systems ranging from primary knee replacement system with Patella as a component and manufactured with any material, at Rs. 5,443.79 per unit, to revision knee replacement system, a secondary knee replacement system with femoral component and made of any material, at Rs. 83,546.87 per unit