Lower clawback fee to be applied starting October 1, 2012

“The fee was revised down, from over 30 percent to over 20 percent. The clawback fee will
come into force starting in the fourth quarter, starting on October 1. We had multiple meetings with the
medicine producers, with importers, with those in trading, and we reached a reasonable
understanding, for them, for the health system and for the state budget, the health budget, included, in
the sense that the debts will also be paid, as the debts exist in the balances of the economic agents,
but have not been granted, because, as they said, the letter and the spirit of the relevant law have not
been understood. Now we have made it clear,” Georgescu said. According to him, medicines will circulate better in the area of retailers, hospitals and patients
“and so forth and the financial circuits, that is the payment of the corresponding amounts to these.”
“The clawback fee is applied in the medicine area of the health sector and regulates the way
of functioning, establishment, payment, regularizations, as there are unpaid amounts since 2009-2010
and bringing these refunds up-to-date among the economic agents in retail, the medicine retailers,
hospitals, pharmacies, the Health Insurance House and so on will allow the fluidization of the medicine
supply to the health units, on the one hand, and the refunds to economic agents, medicine suppliers,
producers or retailers, on the other hand,” Georgescu explained.