2022 CPI-Based Price-Adjustment Factors for Patented Drug Products

The following table provides the CPI-Based Price-Adjustment factors for 2022. These factors were based on the actual rate of CPI inflation of 2.3% in 2018, 2.0% in 2019, and 0.7% in 2020.

CPI-Based Price-Adjustment factors for 2022

Benchmark Year	2019	2020	2021
Price-Adjustment Factor	1.050	1.027	1.007

Based on these factors, one can derive: (1) a maximum allowable cumulative price increase of 5.0% between 2019 and 2022 for patented medicines with Canadian sales in 2019; (2) a maximum allowable cumulative price increase of 2.7% between 2020 and 2022 for patented medicines with Canadian sales in 2020; and (3) a maximum allowable cumulative price increase of 0.7% between 2021 and 2022 for patented medicines with Canadian sales in 2021.

The year-over-year price increase cap for the 12-month period ending December 2022 is 1.1% (=1.5 x Actual Inflation in 2020).