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In this post, I will describe the strange event that happened about a sale of gaseous oxygen.

oxygen, from January 2010 has been reclassified as medicine and this has AIC code . Depending on the basis of this, it was necessary to assign the part of suppliers, an ACI for each cylinder based on the ability of the cylinder, the type of oxygen (liquid or gas), pressure (200 or 150 bar), etc. ...
According to the features mentioned above, oxygen can be classified into

• band A (the SSN)
• H band (band A in the hospital)
• C band (by the patient).

This means that in order to relieve the oxygen is still needed a prescription and the price is (should be) equal in the whole Italian territory, given that we speak of a medicinal product subject to medical prescription. I happened

fact, the following case: a clinic called to a pharmacy to fill the tanks (owned by the clinic).
Since oxygen has now the AIC, he asked a specialist provider (RIVOIRA) to fill the cylinders, so everything is ok.
The problem arose when it came to the clinic to charge for oxygen, the service provider could be assigned an ACI (038944029) to cylinders filled, but the database indicated that the AIC corresponded to an oxygen tank in Band C the cost of 0.00 €. Mumble mumble ...
recap:

1. oxygen with the AIC of you are talking to is in band C
2. as it is in band C, it must have a fixed price decided by the same company throughout the Italian
3. the price is € 0, since (as I discovered) the company has not informed the ministry of health no price
4. the pharmacy, it must then sell a bottle with this AIC? It will carry a surcharge under the law may set a price or free?

To find an answer, it was necessary to contact various departments of the supplier (RIVOIRA) to obtain the definitive answer: for the AIC to whom you are speaking, was not provided at any price because the Ministry of Health has never been decided, so the pharmacy can apply any price, bearing in mind that VAT of oxygen (although medicine) to 4% .

The staff is my counsel not to exaggerate :) You can apply the mark set by law provided for the cylinders in group A or to take as a starting price as reported by national medical, or double the purchase price and add VAT.