Hyderabad, May 8 -- The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has taken significant steps to ensure that the costs of life-saving cardiac stents remain affordable for patients by issuing a notification to fix ceiling prices for all types of stents used in cardiac surgeries.

Effective from the start of April 2024, the NPPA has revised the ceiling prices of coronary stents, aligning them with changes in the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) for the year 2023 compared to the previous year.

According to the order, the price of bare metal stents will be set at Rs 10,509.79 per unit, while drug-eluting stents (DES), including metallic DES and bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS)/biodegradable stents, will have a revised price of Rs. 38,...