Medicine Price Unit
This unit was formed in December 2004 with the following objectives:
- To conduct a survey on the price of medicines in order to obtain information on the trend of medicines price in the market
- To obtain the price structure of Medicines in Malaysia
- To create a medicines price database system
- To disseminate information on medicines price to professionals within health sector as well as the consumers
Price monitoring activities was started since 2006 to obtain medicines price trend in Malaysia. Until now, there have been 6 sets of data have been collected. This survey involves 105 types of medicines at 47 different premises under the Ministry of Health and a total of 47 private premises within East Malaysia and West Malaysia. The details are as follows:-
Table 1: Premises that are involved in the Medicine Price Monitoring Survey
| |
West Malaysia |
East Malaysia |
| Ministry of Health Hospitals |
22 |
22 |
| Private Pharmacies |
20 |
20 |
| Private Hospitals |
5 |
2 |
| University Hospitals |
3 |
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Table 2 : Group of medicines that are under monitoring with examples
Group 1
34 types of prescription medicines and non-prescription medicines which are commonly used for treatments |
Examples:
200mg Aciclovir tablets
150mg Ranitidine tablets
20mg Simvastatin tablets
25mg Captopril tablets |
Group 2
28 patented medicines and newly registered medicines in Malaysia |
Examples:
0.5mg Anagrelide Hydrochloride capsules
5mg Levocetrizine tablets
0.5mg Dutasteride capsules
20mg Rabeprazole Sodium tablets |
Group 3
11 types of medicines with specific indications such as transplant and oncology medicines |
Examples:
50mg Epirubicin injection
1g Ifosfamide injection
500mg/50ml Rituximab injection
500mg/10ml Fluorouracil injection |
Group 4
32 types of medicines that are mostly used as reported by the National Medicine Use Survey (NMUS) |
Examples:
2mg Salbutamol tablets
40mg Frusemide tablets
20mg Atorvastatin tablets
5mg Lisinopril tablets |
From the analysis done on the data collected during Phase 1 of the survey in March 2006, the first edition of MyMedPrice was published. It is also downloadable from www.pharmacy.gov.my. The second edition of MyMedPrice, which includes the analysis of all 4 phases of data collected in 2006, will be published soon. A database on medicines prices is still in progress.
The following compilations of medicines price lists are ready for viewing and are updated from time to time. The examples are:
- Price List of LP, APPL and Tender Medicines (Edition 1)
- Fee Act (Full Paying Patient) Price List (Edition 1,2 and 3)
- Fee Act and Fee Act (Medical) Price List (Edition 1 and 2)
- Medicines Wholesale Price List (Edition 1)
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