From September 1st: Medicare drugstores can only increase their prices by 15%

Item 5 of the Program, "Improving the Standard System for the Payment of Medical Insurance Drugs", makes it clear that all medicines (excluding self-purchased products) included in the medical insurance catalogue traded online by the province's pharmaceutical procurement platform are included in the scope of payment of medical insurance drugs.
, the fixed-point public medical institutions and private medical institutions medical insurance drugs to implement the same payment standards.
fixed-point retail pharmacy medical insurance drug payment standards unified according to the medical institutions payment standards floating 15% (excluding the state and provincial negotiations of drugs) implementation, floating amount to the minimum packaging of up to 200 yuan.
Under the drug zero-plus policy, the standard of payment of medical insurance drugs in pharmacies is implemented according to the standard of payment of medical institutions up to 15%, which also means that the difference between the payment of medical insurance drugs in pharmacies is only 15%, and the difference is limited to 200 yuan.
A large number of drugs, pharmacy gross margin to reduce it is understood that through the "Programme" this expansion, Zhejiang Province drug recruitment platform online trading drugs from 144,000 to 171,000, so that designated medical institutions clinical drug use and retail pharmacy procurement and operation have more choices.
, however, according to the Interim Measures for the Administration of Designated Pharmacies for Basic Medical Insurance in Zhejiang Province (Draft for Comments) issued by Zhejiang Province, pharmacies are equipped with an online trading drug variety of no less than 50%.
not pay for the sale of drugs other than the provincial drug procurement platform by designated pharmacies.
, adding to the provincial harvesting platform also means giving up the gross margin of large quantities of medicines.
"Pharmacies are for profit, hospitals don't make money from drugs, they can make money through surgery and medical treatment, but pharmacies are different, and the revenue comes from drugs," said Shi Xiaoqing, a special contributor to the account.
, of course, pharmacies can continue to be free to price on the basis of this fee, i.e. the excess portion of medicare payments is allowed to be paid by the insured persons themselves."
, the drugstore needs to weigh whether the insured is willing to continue to pay after they have swiped their health insurance card.
On May 30th this year, at the 3rd DTP Conference held by Seberan, Dr. Yu Huping of Economics also addressed the issue, noting that the health care sector would work with market regulators to strengthen sectoral linkages to prevent malicious pricing by pharmacies and pass on excess fees to insured personnel. The measures that can be adopted by
" include the establishment of a unified pharmacy management information platform by the joint market regulatory department of the medical insurance department, the publication to the whole society of the drug sales prices of each pharmacy, helping the insured to make reasonable choices and using the market mechanism to suppress the price;
," he said.
the retail drug price or lower, the prescription outflow accelerated in accordance with the requirements of the National Health Insurance Administration, will gradually unify the scope of payment of medical insurance drugs.
, Zhejiang province's policy often has a national benchmark significance, the introduction and implementation of the policy, other regions are likely to follow suit.
so far, in Jiangsu, Yunnan, Xinjiang and other places have talked about some drug pharmacies can only increase the price of 15% of the standard.
if the national implementation of the "pharmacy medical insurance drug payment standard relative to the standard medical institutions to pay 15% increase" standard, then what will be the impact on pharmacies? "There should be a reduction in drug prices.
" account writer Li Zuo-peug told the author, "ordinary customers to buy common prescription drugs, the price offered by the hospital is much cheaper than the drugstore, if the price can only increase 15%, which means that the price of some drugstores will also fall."
" he also pointed out that "for prescription drugs, some customers know that hospital drugs are cheap, but also choose drugstores for two main reasons: First, hospitals have to register queues, more troublesome: Second, hospitals have restrictions on prescription drugs, generally only open for one week."
a different way, since drugstores are cheaper, this will also accelerate the outflow of prescriptions.
Jiuzhou Grand Pharmacy is the first in Zhejiang Province to connect to the medical insurance collection platform enterprises, as for the advantages and disadvantages of participating in the collection platform, its president Qi Li has said that after the opening of procurement rights, pharmacies enjoy the same price as the hospital, to make up for some prescription drug prices upside down.
, they also got a lot of drugs only available in hospitals, enriched the number of items and attracted more visitors, for the development of hospital side shops to lay the foundation.
people's big pharmacy 2020 semi-annual report said that the acceleration of medical insurance electronic vouchers, prescription sharing platform promotion, with volume procurement and other policies to further promote the outflow of prescriptions.
At the same time, the semi-annual report also pointed out that the current people's large pharmacy direct stores health insurance stores accounted for 89.83 percent, hospital side stores accounted for 11.05 percent, DTP pharmacies 137, special outpatient 340, in order to undertake prescription drug outflow accounted for the first opportunity.
this shows that in order for pharmacies to receive the dividends from the outflow of prescriptions, they must strengthen the planning and construction of health insurance shops, side shops and special pharmacies, and strengthen cooperation with the health care sector.
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