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#SFHS2613379AEribuline Hikma Added to France’s Public-Sector Approved Medicines List

🇫🇷France··Other·Low Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This order adds Eribuline Hikma 0.44 mg/mL injectable solution to the list of medicines approved for use by public healthcare institutions and other public services in France. Health insurance coverage is limited to specific uses: later-line monotherapy for locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer after at least two chemotherapy regimens, and treatment of adults with unresectable liposarcoma after prior anthracycline-based chemotherapy, unless that treatment could not be given. Hospitals, public healthcare buyers, prescribers, and reimbursement teams should apply these indication limits when using or billing the product.

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Key Changes

  • Adds Eribuline Hikma 0.44 mg/mL injectable solution to the approved medicines list for public institutions and services.
  • Limits health insurance coverage to specified advanced breast cancer and unresectable liposarcoma indications.
  • Identifies the covered product presentation and CIP code for procurement and reimbursement purposes.

Obligations

What this law requires

medium

Use ERIBULINE HIKMA 0.44 mg/mL injectable solution only within the approved public-sector medicine listing for collective/public service use, as added to the list of pharmaceutical specialties approved for use by public healthcare institutions and other public services.

public healthcare institutionspublic healthcare buyershospital pharmacy services
licensing
high

Apply health insurance reimbursement only for ERIBULINE HIKMA 0.44 mg/mL when used as third-line or later monotherapy for patients with locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer whose disease progressed after at least two chemotherapy regimens for advanced-stage disease.

public healthcare institutionshospital reimbursement teamsprescribers
operational
high

For breast cancer reimbursement, verify that prior treatment included both an anthracycline and a taxane, unless the patient could not receive those treatments.

prescribershospital pharmacy serviceshospital reimbursement teams
operational
high

Apply health insurance reimbursement only for ERIBULINE HIKMA 0.44 mg/mL when used to treat adult patients with unresectable liposarcoma who previously received an anthracycline-containing chemotherapy regimen for advanced or metastatic disease, unless the patient could not receive anthracycline treatment.

public healthcare institutionsprescribershospital reimbursement teams
operational

Affected Parties

Public hospitals and healthcare institutionsOncology prescribers+2 more…

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