Romanian Govt To Regulate Healthcare Clawback Tax By End-August

„Drug producers will never be completely satisfied, but every state takes steps to ensure decent spending on medicine,” said Boc on public radio.

The Government should replace the clawback tax with a new version and implement the proposal for co-payment as soon as possible, Jeffrey Franks, head of the IMF agreement evaluation mission, told MEDIAFAX on Monday.

The clawback system was introduced in the fall of 2009 and required all drug producers selling on the Romanian market to contribute quarterly to the public healthcare system by 5%-11% of their revenue from the sale of products used by the national healthcare programs, included on the list of discounted/free medicine, or used in hospitals.

The Association of Romanian Producers of Generic Drugs has stated that the clawback tax is unfair, inefficient and ineffective.