Defibrillators: Prices

(asked on 28th May 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what categories of implantable defibrillators and cardiac resynchronisation defibrillators have been established for reference price purposes; and what the reference price is for each category.


Answered by
 Portrait
Ben Gummer
This question was answered on 4th June 2015

The reference prices are categorised under the seven categories used by the suppliers of implantable defibrillators and cardiac resynchronisation defibrillators to identify the type of device used. The reference prices are as follows:

Summary Description

Reference Price
excluding VAT

NICE Guidelines prices

CRT - D Generator

£12,500

CRT - D System

£12,700

£12,293

Dual Chamber ICD Gen

£10,600

Dual Chamber ICD Sys

£10,800

£9,692

Single Chamber ICD Gen

£9,300

Single Chamber ICD Sys

£9,450

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