257 drug price adjustments, 277 into the price linkage catalog!

A few days ago, the Hunan Provincial Public Resources Trading Center issued the "Notice on Adjusting the Price Limit of Some Drugs in Inter-Provincial Price Linkage in 2022" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice", please click to read the original text for details )

After reading the original text , the price limit of 257 drugs such as mannitol injection, alendronate sodium enteric-coated tablets, ribavirin injection, and human serum albumin will be adjusted

Which varieties make it into the list?

Which varieties make it into the list?

It can be seen from the list of drugs included in the price linkage catalogue that this time Hunan Province will mainly list the national emergency rescue drugs, pediatric non-medical drugs that are on the Internet before January 1, 2021 and have no purchase and distribution records from January 1 to December 31, 2021.

Including heparin sodium injection, metoprolol tartrate injection, magnesium sulfate injection, epinephrine hydrochloride injection, etc.

The reporter also noticed that a number of proprietary Chinese medicines have been included in the list of drugs in the price linkage catalog, including Bupleurum injection, Huoxiangzhengqi mixture, Huoxiangzhengqi water, and Xiaoer Kechuanling granules

A variety of proprietary Chinese medicines are included in the list of drugs in the price-linked catalogue, including Bupleurum injection, Huoxiangzhengqi mixture, Huoxiangzhengqi water, Xiaoer Kechuanling granules, etc.

Angong Niuhuang Wan is also on the list

Angong Niuhuang Wan is also on the list

In addition, a total of 257 drugs were included in the list of price-limited drugs linked to the price adjustment and linked to the price list

According to the requirements of the document, deferasirox dispersible tablets are "dual-channel" negotiated drugs in Hunan Province and are produced by Novartis

Dynamic adjustment will be normalized

Dynamic adjustment will be normalized

In fact, Hunan Province’s adjustment to the list and prices of drugs linked to the price linked online and linked to the Internet is based on the “Notice on Launching the Inter-provincial Drug Price Linked Listing Work in 2022” issued by the Hunan Provincial Medical Security Bureau in late March this year ( Hunan Medical Insurance [2022] No.

In this 2022 inter-provincial drug price linkage work notice, there are only two categories of drugs that can be excluded from the linkage scope : one is drugs with special policies, including fixed-point supply, national negotiation during the agreement period, and centralized procurement of drugs.

Only two categories of drugs can be excluded from the scope of linkage

When specifically setting the price linkage rules, Hunan divided the drugs listed on the Internet into four categories: national negotiated drugs and their generic drugs, basic infusions, first aid and shortage drugs, and linked catalog drugs

For the drugs in the linkage catalogue, the generic names and dosage forms of chemical drugs and biological preparations are not listed on the provincial procurement platform, which can meet the requirements of 8 other provincial procurement platforms, or meet the requirements of 5 other provincial procurement platforms and 5 in the province.

Some people in the industry believe that the policy trend of Hunan Province's launch of drug price capping and listing seems to be more inclined to collect real drug transaction low prices

The policy tendency seems to be more inclined to collect real drug transactions.
The low price may further squeeze out the water in the field of drug purchase and sales.