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    It's too low! 600 medicines are not as expensive as a bottle of mineral water

    • Last Update: 2019-12-24
    • Source: Internet
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    [industry trends of pharmaceutical network] recently, Shandong Pharmaceutical centralized purchase platform released the notice on price linkage of online products of Shandong Pharmaceutical centralized purchase (the first batch in 2019) The price of nearly 600 drugs is lower than that of a bottle of mineral water For example, the price of commonly used medicine vitamin C injection (2ml: 0.25g, 1 piece / tablet) is only 0.2 yuan, the price of AMGA huangmin capsule (0.25g, 10 capsules / tablet) is only 0.45 yuan, and the price of Banlangen Granule (10g, 1 bag / bag) is only 0.75 yuan... in fact, after the large-scale centralized mining in China, the drug price has become an inevitable trend Nowadays, these commonly used drugs have not reached a low price, only a lower price Take amkahuang min capsule (0.25g, 10 capsules / plate) as an example, the average price is only 0.045 yuan If you charge for one pill or tablet, there are lower drugs In addition, not only Shandong, but also many provincial capitals have started to reduce the drug prices For example, on December 16, Hainan Province issued an announcement on the gradient price reduction of drugs not selected in the expanded centralized procurement According to the announcement, the average decline rate of all online drugs was 23.69%, and that of drugs without price reduction was 33.91%, some of which was as high as 97.5% Among them, the price of tenofovir fumarate dipivoxil tablets (specification: 300mg, 30 tablets / bottle) from Qilu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd decreased from 445 yuan / bottle before adjustment to 11.2 yuan / bottle The price of each bottle decreased by 433.8 yuan, a drop of 97.5% Recently, 15 kinds of outpatient drugs for hypertension and diabetes were purchased in Hebei Province, and many drugs were priced by minute Among them, nifedipine (10mg) was 1:2cm3, nitrendipine (10mg) was 1:9c7, glibenclamide (2.5mg) was 1:9c8 In fact, not only the provinces and regions began to collect some commonly used and large amount of drugs, but also some urban areas, such as Wuhan, Hubei Province, included the proton pump inhibitor (PPI), cephalosporin as the representative of antibacterial drugs and other three categories of drugs into the volume procurement, involving 45 kinds of drugs such as rabeprazole, lansoprazole, esmeralazole, insulin and so on Before that, Anshan public hospitals began to implement the state's 25 drug price reduction notice According to the introduction, many drugs with price reduction are commonly used for the benefit of patients with chronic diseases, such as antihypertensive drugs, lipid-lowering drugs, tumor drugs, mental disease drugs, and many common disease drugs, involving the treatment of digestive diseases, respiratory diseases, etc the average price reduction of 25 drugs has reached 57.8% Today, not only a large number of commonly used and best-selling drugs, began to reduce prices 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 For example, 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 drug procurement organized by the state It is worth noting that in the drugs published by Shuyu civilian pharmacy, the median price is directly used as the retail price For example, the median price of atorvastatin calcium tablets (specification: 10mg * 14 tablets) produced by Qilu pharmaceutical is 1.68 yuan, and the supply provinces (regions) include nine provinces, including Zhejiang, Shandong, Hubei, Shanxi, etc in the announcement of Shuyu civilian pharmacy, the retail price is 1.68 yuan In addition, the retail price of olanzapine in the treatment of schizophrenia is only 34.72 yuan, and that of amlodipine besylate in the treatment of hypertension is lower, only 0.49 yuan There are also irbesartan tablets, fosinopril sodium tablets, risperidone tablets, levetiracetam tablets, losartan potassium tablets, which are all pre sold at the selected prices, only 5.46 yuan, 1.4 yuan, 71.9 yuan, 14.7 yuan, respectively However, several Dalian locks in Xianning, Hubei Province, are more direct Encouraged by the city's Medical Insurance Bureau, the price of 100 drugs often sold in pharmacies has been reduced by an average of 6.01%, and that of some varieties has been reduced by 46.67% At present, on the whole, according to the national requirements, as well as the continuous deepening of drug control policies such as volume purchase, there will only be more and more drugs with price reduction in the future, as well as more and more drugs with price limit.
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