Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 July 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Evaluating Orphan Drugs: Discussion

9:00 am

Mr. Shaun Flanagan:

A common misunderstanding put out in the media is that the HSE does not consider all of the cost offsets. It does. The actual additionality we are asking for is additionality after every saving has been considered, so it is the additional bit we need.