Health

#SFHS2612882AFrance Adds Axitinib Accord to Public Healthcare Medicine List

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

AI-generated summary for informational purposes only. Not legal advice. See the original source for the authoritative text.

🇬🇧 English

This order adds three Axitinib Accord cancer medicine presentations, in 1 mg, 3 mg, and 5 mg tablets, to the list of medicines approved for use by public healthcare institutions and public services. Reimbursement by health insurance is limited to adult patients with advanced kidney cancer after a prior treatment with sunitinib or cytokine has failed. Prescribing is restricted to hospital doctors, oncology specialists, or doctors qualified in cancer care.

AI-generated summary. May contain errors. Refer to official sources for legal decisions.

Key Changes

  • Adds Axitinib Accord 1 mg tablets to the approved public healthcare medicines list
  • Adds Axitinib Accord 3 mg tablets to the approved public healthcare medicines list
  • Adds Axitinib Accord 5 mg tablets to the approved public healthcare medicines list

Obligations

What this law requires

medium

Public healthcare institutions and public services may use AXITINIB ACCORD 1 mg, 3 mg, and 5 mg film-coated tablets only as listed approved pharmaceutical specialties under the annex to this order.

public healthcare institutionspublic services
licensing
high

Health insurance coverage for the listed AXITINIB ACCORD presentations is limited to treatment of adult patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma after failure of prior treatment with sunitinib or cytokine.

health insurance bodiespublic healthcare institutionsprescribing healthcare professionals
operational
high

Prescriptions of the listed AXITINIB ACCORD presentations for the reimbursed indication must be restricted to hospital doctors, oncology specialists, or doctors qualified in cancer care.

hospital doctorsoncology specialistsdoctors qualified in cancer carepublic healthcare institutions
licensing

Affected Parties

Public healthcare institutionsAdult patients with advanced kidney cancer+2 more…

Tags

pharmaceuticals,cancer treatment,health insurance…