The Legal View of the Use of the off-label Drug in the scope of Supplementary Health

Abstract

Objective: This article aims to analyze from the point of view on the subject of the use of the off label drug in the scope of Supplementary Health. Methods: a review of the national legislation has been carried out, consulting the entire content of the laws and norms that constitute the theme. The legislative databases of the Federal Senate were consulted, as well as the legal basis of the National Sanitary Surveillance Agency and the National Supplementary Health Agency. Results: There are plenty of legal norms for the regulation of the matter, and the whole treatment policy of this theme is based on the hierarchical pyramid of laws, that is, in ordinances and normative instructions. Conclusion: The existence of predicted coverage of the disease or pathology in the contract, there is freedom of prescription of off-label medications by the attending physician applies.