Question 21824 — pharmacy and medications

Summary

Ms. Agnès Firmin Le Bodo draws the attention of the Minister of Solidarity and Health to the composition of the CEPS. The Economic Committee for Health Products (CEPS), an interministerial body placed under the joint authority of the ministers responsible for health, social security and the economy, is mainly responsible by law for setting the prices of medicines and the prices of medical devices for individual use covered by compulsory health insurance. It is composed of two sections, the drug section and the medical devices section. The decisions of the CEPS are taken collegially, in accordance with the orientations it receives publicly from ministers, and under the control of the administrative judge. Prices or rates are preferably set through agreements concluded with companies marketing the products or, for certain medical devices, with the professional organizations representing these companies. Since 2004, the composition of the committee has been balanced between representatives of the State (general directorate of health, directorate of social security, general directorate of consumption, competition and fraud prevention, general directorate of businesses) and national compulsory health insurance funds and supplementary health insurance organizations which have a deliberative voice. The General Directorate for Care Provision and the Directorate for Research and Innovation (Ministry of Research) also sit in a consultative capacity. The latter provides pharmaceutical companies with support in terms of attractiveness and competitiveness of companies facing certain countries, including European ones, which frequently adopt measures support incentives from their domestic pharmaceutical industry. Also, it seems relevant to study the possibility of granting a deliberative voice, and no longer just a consultative one, to the research department in the same way as the general management of companies. She would like to know his opinion on this question.

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