Anhui: Squeeze out 220 million yuan of supplies price "moisture"

In order to further squeeze the high-value medical supplies price falsely high "water", reduce the burden of patients to seek medical treatment, according to Anhui Province public medical institutions medical supplies online centralized trading implementation program and the 2018 comprehensive medical reform key work deployment, in June this year, Anhui launched orthopaedic implants and vascular intervention two categories of product price adjustment work, the new price limit than the pre-adjustment limit price reduction of 13.27 percent, annual savings of about 220 million yuan.
Since 2014, Anhui Province public medical institutions have fully implemented the ten categories of high-value medical supplies online centralized transactions, the implementation of sunshine procurement, of which the procurement volume accounted for the top two orthopaedic implants and vascular intervention class, accounting for all ten categories of high-value medical supplies procurement total amount of nearly 70%.
tens of thousands of yuan of orthopaedic implants, so that patients smell "joint replacement" and color change. In order to reduce the burden on patients, orthopaedic implants and vascular interventional consumables have been adjusted for three rounds since 2014. After 3 rounds of cumulative, the price of orthopaedic implants decreased by 47%, and the price of vascular intervention supplies decreased by 26%.
this year, Anhui Province for the fourth time on orthopaedic implant-type supplies, vascular intervention-type supplies to carry out price limits. According to reports, compared with the purchase price of medical and health institutions before the implementation of online centralized transactions, the cumulative decline of some products reached 80%. One company produced a straight-type bone plate, the actual purchase price before hanging the net is 20005 yuan, after 4 rounds of price adjustment, the latest price limit is 2610 yuan;
In addition, in September 2017, Anhui Province, based on the lower price of the actual purchase price of provincial and municipal public medical and health institutions, dynamically adjusted the price limit for online transactions of high-value medical supplies, such as in vitro circulation and blood purification, with an average decrease of 9.66%, and medical and health institutions purchased related products at adjusted price limits, saving nearly 100 million yuan in annual savings. (Health News)