evidence: After cardiac stents, the government now caps prices of knee implants [...] Currently, a patient has to spend at least Rs 1.5 lakh to buy a cobalt chromium knee implant of the same quality. This means the order will bring the price such orthopaedic knee implants down by a whopping 65%. The NPPA’s directive comes a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his Independence Day speech, said that the government is going regulate knee implant prices like it had done with the prices of cardiac stents. In February, the NPPA had passed an order capping the prices of stents used cardiac procedures.