The report also detailed that almost 60% of the best-selling medicines were above the CPI for Mayamong them, the hormonal contraceptive Divina (8.2%), GSK’s levothyroxine (7.9%), Ventolin (7.7%), fast-acting Actron 600 (7.6%) and Alplax (7.5%).
In the first quarter there was also an average increase of 14% in hospital supplies, led by sera (12%), albumin (16%) and antibiotics (11%) Simultaneously, there was a growth in consumption measured in units sold , so the incidence of remedies in the total cost of health is increasingly higher.
The UAS also highlighted that currently social and prepaid projects spend $3 of every $10 of their budgets on medicines, which means that 30% of the total expenditure is already allocated to medicines compared to the 24% that is used in hospitalizations and surgeries, an item that in 2021 it was on par.
From the entity that brings together health companies, they attribute the rise in medicines to the “upward curve in consumption” since they are “tied to the dollar.”
Regarding the latter, the study indicates that “in the first three months of the year the official dollar rose 8.07%, while in the first four months, high-cost medicines had increases of 18.50% on average.”
Source: Ambito
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