Pharmaceutical Reimbursement Board; final maximum allowable cost (MAC) determinations for certain drug...

The Pharmaceutical Reimbursement Board announces the suspension of the maximum allowable cost (MAC) limit on erythromycin stearate, oral tablets, 500 mg, effective November 17, 1982. The limit for this drug product was published in the Federal Register on December 11, 1978 (43 FR 57972) and became effective on January 25, 1979. This suspension of the MAC limit on erythromycin stearate, oral tablets, 500 mg, is based on general price increases by manufacturers that have occurred in the marketplace and the Board's concern that this drug product may no longer be widely and consistently available at the established MAC limit. The Pharmaceutical Reimbursement Board may reinstitute procedures to establish a new MAC limit on this drug product in the future.