Saturday, November 29, 2008

DISCOUNT CONTRACTS

The AOK today announced the preliminary information on the new rebate contracts with pharmaceutical companies shipped. Photo: Elke Hinkel leg] Berlin - The AOK today announced the first preliminary information for its new discount contracts sent. As the negotiation leading AOK Baden-Wuerttemberg announced, were sent to 58 firms preliminary decisions on 44 of a total of 64 advertised drugs brought to the post. For five Losgebieten were thus 220 increments possible - to issue within the next two weeks. First, however, nor the review of producers. The AOK has his own sentiment temporary surcharge ban, "due to review individual bidders."

Over the next week, the AOK decisions to send all the ingredients: "We could not yet decide for all substances. As announced in our tender, we had to offer some assessment documents of the bidders nachfordern what the decision-making process in these cases, something in the length moves, "said negotiator Dr. Christopher Hermann.

According to his information had to AOK tender deadline on 3 November 70 bids received: "We have carefully examined all the bids and procurement are also implemented. Objectivity and respect of operational and business secrets were highest bids for us. "The name of the manufacturer wants the fund therefore competitive reasons, does not mention.

Despite an expected confrontation in court, the AOK discount their new contracts on 1 March 2009 to implement. The company is more than two months preparation time, so the ability to supply medicines to ensure the rebate.

The AOK had early August discount contracts for the years 2009 and 2010 tendered. The 64 agents had been issued, according to the Treasury in 2007 a sales volume of 2.3 billion euros. Compared to the previous procedure, the first Europe-wide tender.

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