Roman Samiec, general manager of Thuasne Czech Republic, introduces the company as a key competitor in the medical devices field, with their niche products addressing the unmet medical need in the country including orthoses and homecare. Samiec describes the significant history of the French firm in the Czech Republic and how the country needs to take more steps to close the gap on Europe and improve the local market access landscape for medical devices.
At the beginning of my career, over 20 years ago, there were no market access issues, as the reimbursement and pricing system was set up around the products that were available then. What I see now, as a result of more innovative and newer albeit expensive products coming to the market, is that the current system is not adapting to them
