A large number of best-selling drugs have been reduced in price

▍ source: Cypress blue - drugstore Manager ▍ editor: Xi Yu Drug price reduction, drug price reduction, drug price reduction! Today, a large number of commonly used and best-selling drugs have begun to reduce prices Moreover, it's not just hospitals that have to cut prices on drugs, but retail pharmacies as well With the expansion of the country's volume and centralized purchase, drug prices are rising As one of the three terminals of drug supply, retail pharmacies are no exception, and they have begun to reduce prices Recently, Shandong Shuyu civilian pharmacy announced that since December 2019, more than 1600 stores in the province will uniformly implement the bid winning price for centralized procurement of drugs organized by the state According to the implementation opinions on the pilot project of centralized purchase and use of drugs organized by the state to expand the regional scope issued by the nine departments, retail pharmacies participating in the purchase can be allowed to increase the price appropriately based on the selected price It is worth noting that the retail price of the drugs announced by the common people's pharmacy of Shuyu has not been increased, but directly takes the middle price as the retail price For example, the price of Atorvastatin Calcium Tablets (specification: 10mg*14 tablets) produced by Qilu pharmaceutical is 1.68 yuan, and the price of 9 provinces (districts) including Zhejiang, Shandong, Hubei and Shanxi In the announcement of the common people of Shuyu, the retail price is 1.68 yuan You know, in the past, the retail price of atorvastatin calcium tablets used to vary from 40 yuan to 50 yuan Now it's only 1.68 yuan to book at 1600 stores of shuyucivilian Of course, there is more than one price reducing drug available for people in gargle jade For example, the retail price of olanzapine tablet for schizophrenia is only 34.72 yuan, and that of amlodipine besylate tablet for hypertension is lower, only 0.49 yuan There are also irbesartan tablets, fosinopril sodium tablets, risperidone tablets, levetiracetam tablets, and losartan potassium tablets, all of which are selected in the pre-sale price, only 5.46 yuan, respectively Yuan, 1.4 yuan, 71.9 yuan, 14.7 yuan Coincidentally, Shaanxi Yikang pharmaceutical also issued relevant notices, 14 kinds of winning varieties of centralized purchase are at the same price as the same products in the hospital, becoming the first retail drugstore in Shaanxi Province to implement the expansion of centralized purchase, which can be ordered in more than 1300 stores in the province from now on Don't think that there are only 25 drugs selected for degradation In addition, a large number of drugs are still being reduced in price Recently, the state joint procurement office has determined a new batch of products (35 varieties in total) At that time, relevant medical and pharmaceutical institutions across the country will participate in the procurement It is understood that 35 varieties of acarbose, azithromycin, metformin, metronidazole, fluconazole, tadalafil tablets, clindamycin, Cefradine and other best-selling drugs At the same time, some provinces that are in the process of centralized purchase have also selected some additional varieties for centralized purchase For example, in Guangxi Province, in addition to the 25 varieties of 4 + 7, another 23 varieties are selected for centralized collection, including the commonly used and well sold varieties such as amoxicillin, azithromycin, aspirin, aminomethylcyclophosphate, ibuprofen, clarithromycin, rabeprazole, cefuroxime, ambroxol, ceftriaxone, metformin, etc In Hebei Province, 15 kinds of outpatient drugs for hypertension and diabetes were purchased in a centralized way, and many of them were priced by minute Among them, nifedipine (10mg), nitrendipine (10mg), glibenclamide (2.5mg), nitrendipine (10mg), and glibenclamide (2.5mg), respectively, are priced by minute (see the figure below for details) Not only some commonly used and large dosage drugs are intensively collected in provinces and regions, but also in some urban areas, such as Wuhan, Hubei Province Three categories of drugs, such as proton pump inhibitor (PPI) and cephalosporins, are included in the volume procurement, involving 45 kinds of drugs, such as rabeprazole, lansoprazole, esmeralazole, omeprazole, pantoprazole and insulin On the other hand, it is a fact that retail drugstores are included in the centralized purchase This year, Shanghai, Shandong, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Jiangsu and other provinces and cities have included drugstores in the drug purchase system of hospitals.