Objective

This is the website of the Fair and Affordable Pricing Initiative (FaAP in short), a regional cooperation of European Countries aiming to improve and facilitate access to effective and affordable medicinal products.

How it works

FaAP relies on the assumption that mutual cooperation can make the public reimbursement system more efficient. Therefore, this initiative develops methods and modalities of cooperation and negotiations. This translates to expert meetings of participants where information is exchanged to finally set up pilot negotiations with common positions on the modalities of pricing.

Mandate & partners

The health ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland and Slovakia signed the second Memorandum of Understanding on the 15th of May, 2019, serving as a framework for the collaboration. This mandate enables the participants to contribute voluntarily, create task groups and handle any practicalities to maintain the joint operations. Experts active in FaAP represent the ministries of health, financing agents and health technology assessment bodies of participating countries.

The governance structure of FaAP can be illustrated as the following:

Role	Member
Strategic	Ministries of Health
Coordinative	Coordination Committee
Operative	Working Groups

The chairman (Dominik DZIURDA, PL) and the vice-chairman (Neringa BERNOTIENE, LT) of the Coordination Committee serve as a point-of-contact for FaAP.

Information Sharing Workshop

The countries participating in the Fair and Affordable Pricing initative held an information sharing workshop (with a product-specific focus) to facilitate voluntary cooperation on the critical assessment of medicinal products undergoing evaluation for reimbursement. During the workshop - initiated by Hungary - participants discussed the approach towards the identification, quantification, and interpretation of limitations of health economic evulations and shared their practices towards setting up a new base case for the appraisal process.

Website under development

The website of the Fair and Affordable Pricing Initiative has been launched in December 2019, and it is under continuous development ever since. Apart from disseminational purposes, the website also serves as a platform to share publicly available information between cooperating countries. An example would be description of the submission / evaluation procedure (for more details, see the Mutual Cooperation page), or the the list of technologies submitted for reimbursement in each of the participating countries (see the Data Sharing page for more details).

New MoU signed

The new Memorandum of Undrestanding has been signed in Warsaw to serve as a framework of the cooperation Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary to achieve more affordable medicinal products.