Heilongjiang continues to reduce the burden of medication on patients

since mid-to-late December, Heilongjiang Province has fully implemented the results of the national organization's pilot expansion of drug procurement and use in the region, with a total of 206 standard drugs sold at reduced prices, a drop of up to 27.1%. Recently, Heilongjiang provincial government held a press conference, by the provincial medical security bureau and other departments to introduce the implementation of the national organization of centralized procurement of drugs progress.Zhang Shujie, deputy director of Heilongjiang Province's Medical Security Bureau, said that the 25 selected drugs had an average drop of 59% compared with the lowest purchase price in the Alliance region in 2018. Based only on the procurement data of the province's public hospitals on the provincial drug centralized procurement platform in 2018, the province can reduce the total cost of drugs by 242 million yuan after the price reduction.In order to further reduce the burden of drug use of patients, the provincial health insurance bureau for the pilot expansion of 25 selected varieties with the common name and has been implemented in the province to implement the procurement of other unseeded drugs price linkage, corresponding to 25 varieties, a total of 206 standard drugs price reduction, a decrease of 27.1%, further amplifying the effect of the national organization of drug centralized procurement pilot expansion results.According to the introduction, Heilongjiang Provincial Health Insurance Bureau will establish a centralized procurement of pharmaceutical medical insurance payment standards and procurement price coordination mechanism, in principle, the same generic drug research drugs, matching preparations, through consistent evaluation of generic drugs, medical insurance funds according to the same payment standards settlement;
(Health Journal)