Pricing

This section is a Vietnam-focused reference for drug-price management, declaration regimes, and the relationship between declared prices, tender prices, and reimbursement.

Scope:

• Declared wholesale price — the new regime under the amended Pharmacy Law, declared to the Drug Administration of Vietnam (DAV).
• Essential-medicines price declaration under the 2023 Price Law and Decree 85/2024/ND-CP — managed by the Ministry of Health, with the eligible list set out in Circular 28/2024/TT-BYT.
• Winning tender prices — published by DAV and Vietnam Social Security; cross-reference with public-procurement rules under Circular 40/2025/TT-BYT (see Tendering & Market Access).
• Price negotiation route — for selected high-cost or sole-source medicines; list under Circular 05/2024/TT-BYT (as amended by Circular 37/2025/TT-BYT).
• Public price-search portals operated by DAV and the Ministry of Health transparency portal.

Important: as of 1 July 2024, the drug-pricing provisions of Decree 54/2017/ND-CP were repealed and replaced by the 2023 Price Law framework. The amended Pharmacy Law (44/2024/QH15, effective 1 July 2025) then introduced the new declared-wholesale-price regime, which runs in parallel with the Price Law's essential-medicines declaration. The two regimes use different lists and different declarants.

Price Law framework:

• Price Law No. 16/2023/QH15 — passed 19 June 2023, effective 1 July 2024. Replaces the 2012 Price Law (11/2012/QH13). Essential medicines used at healthcare facilities are listed in Section 9, Appendix I.
• Decree 85/2024/ND-CP — implements the Price Law, including drug price declaration procedures. Appendix V sets out the essential medicines requiring price declaration.
• Circular 28/2024/TT-BYT — principles and criteria for building the list of medicines required to declare prices; sets out economic and technical features and announces the list.
• Official Dispatch 4448/BYT-QLD (1 August 2024) — DAV implementation guidance for drug price declaration under the 2023 Price Law.

Pharmacy Law framework (parallel regime):

• Law on Pharmacy 105/2016/QH13 (Articles 107–114) — original price-management provisions.
• Law 44/2024/QH15 (effective 1 July 2025) — introduces declared wholesale drug price; declarants are drug importers, manufacturers, and contract manufacturers; declaration goes to DAV.

Price negotiation:

• Circular 05/2024/TT-BYT (14 May 2024) — list of drugs, medical devices, and test equipment procured through price negotiation, and supplier-selection procedures for price-negotiation packages.
• Circular 37/2025/TT-BYT — amends and supplements Circular 05/2024/TT-BYT.

Tender pricing (cross-reference):

• Circular 40/2025/TT-BYT — drug bidding at public medical facilities (see Tendering & Market Access).

Repealed:

• Decree 54/2017/ND-CP — drug-pricing provisions repealed effective 1 July 2024; other provisions of the decree remain in force for non-pricing matters.

Primary law:

• Law on Prices 16/2023/QH15 — https://vanban.chinhphu.vn/?pageid=27160&docid=208596
• Law on Pharmacy 105/2016/QH13 Chapter X — https://vbpl.vn/boyte/Pages/vbpq-toanvan.aspx?ItemID=121413
• Law 44/2024/QH15 amending Article 107 — https://vanban.chinhphu.vn/?pageid=27160&docid=212466

Decree:

• Decree 85/2024/ND-CP — implementing the Price Law.
• Decree 163/2025/ND-CP Chapter VIII — drug-price management (supersedes Decree 54/2017 pricing provisions repealed 1 July 2024) — https://vanban.chinhphu.vn/?pageid=27160&docid=214322

Operational portals:

• DAV declared-price portal — https://dav.gov.vn
• BHXH VN winning-tender portal — https://baohiemxahoi.gov.vn

Medibase cross-references:

• Tender — /medicine/tendering/
• Registration process — /medicine/registration/

2025 — New declared wholesale price regime: Effective 1 July 2025 under Law 44/2024/QH15, drug importers, manufacturers, and contract manufacturers must declare an "intended wholesale price" to DAV before circulation and re-declare on change. This regime runs in parallel with — and distinct from — the Price Law's essential-medicines declaration.

2025 — Price negotiation list amended: Circular 37/2025/TT-BYT amended Circular 05/2024/TT-BYT, updating the list of medicines and supplies subject to price negotiation and refining supplier-selection procedures.

2024 — Price Law regime in force: On 1 July 2024, the Price Law 16/2023/QH15 took effect together with Decree 85/2024/ND-CP. The drug-pricing provisions of Decree 54/2017/ND-CP were repealed. Circular 28/2024/TT-BYT and DAV Dispatch 4448/BYT-QLD set out the transitional implementation for medicines required to declare prices.

2024 — Price-negotiation framework consolidated: Circular 05/2024/TT-BYT (14 May 2024) consolidated the rules and lists for price-negotiation procurement, replacing fragmented earlier guidance.