At the proposal of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Services, the Serbian government adopted a Decree amending the Decree on criteria for setting prices of medicines, under which imported medicines will go down in price by 5.3%, while the price of domestically produced medicines will decrease 2% on average.
One of the main criteria was comparison with prices of medicines in Slovenia, Croatia and Italy, according to a statement from the Ministry of Health.
The price correction applies on 33.8% of domestic medicines and 89.8% of imported ones.
The price reduction will influence the reduction of expenses of the Serbian Health Insurance Administration by approximately 108 million dinars in the forth quarter of the year, the statement adds.