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Healthcare: biomedical companies take to the streets, "payback kills NHS"

2023-01-10T14:25:46.088Z


Confindustria medical devices, at risk of work and health (ANSA)  Dozens of representatives of Italian biomedical companies demonstrated this morning in Rome to demand the abolition of the payback mechanism for medical devices, which provides for the payment of 2.2 billion euros by companies by January, to compensate for exceeding the ceilings from the Regions. A mechanism, said Fernanda Gellona , ​​general manager of Confindustria medical devices, which "puts


 Dozens of representatives of Italian biomedical companies demonstrated this morning in Rome to demand the abolition of the payback mechanism for medical devices, which provides for the payment of 2.2 billion euros by companies by January, to compensate for exceeding the ceilings from the Regions.

A mechanism, said

Fernanda Gellona

, ​​general manager of Confindustria medical devices, which "puts thousands of jobs at risk and also the very health of citizens, who will no longer be able to be guaranteed the latest generation of hospital medical devices if the companies are forced to deal with this context of crisis".

Many banners were displayed by the protesters: 'Payback for medical devices: unfair, vexatious, unconstitutional' and 'Payback kills public health', the slogans chanted on the posters.

Payback, the protest of SMEs producing medical devices


Source: ansa

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