Nanjing medical supplies collection alliance expansion, 493 hospitals will be volume-for-price

On June 9, according to the official news of Nanjing Medical Insurance Bureau, Nanjing, Huai'an, Taizhou Medical Supplies Central Procurement Alliance ("Nanjing Alliance") expanded the scope of the alliance, Anqing, Zhangzhou, Hefei, Huangshan, Maanshan, Copper Tomb, Wuhu, Xuancheng, Zhenjiang and other 9 cities joined, Nanjing Alliance expanded to 12 cities.
It is understood that 12 cities of Nanjing Alliance have a resident population of 50.8 million people, a total of 493 medical institutions at the second and third levels, of which 115 are third-level medical institutions, 378 are second-level medical institutions, and the annual purchase amount of medical supplies exceeds 20 billion yuanIf the 493 facilities are successful, they are expected to save significant medical costs in 12 cities.
In fact, the industry believes that the expansion of the Nanjing Alliance is mainly due to the completion of the four rounds of negotiations completed by the Nanjing Alliance in 2019, all of which have achieved good resultsIt is reported that on August 16, 2019, Nanjing, Taizhou, Huai'an three cities alliance began the first supplies tape volume negotiationsSpecifically related to implantable drug supply device (infusion port), pre-charged catheter rinder, precision infusion, closed retention needles and other 4 categories of 14 standard supplies, a total of 323 modelsAfter the negotiations, the price of consumables decreased by 80.39 percent, with an average decrease of 72.61 percent (of which Nanjing dropped 75.14 percent).
In addition, the next three rounds of negotiations, each time for a medical enterprise to negotiate, after the negotiations have been completed the enterprise products also have a large area of price reductionFor example, on October 30, 2019, after the third round of supplies negotiations in Nanjing Alliance, the price reduction of some products reached 83.86 percent.
In fact, with the continued arrival of pharmaceutical tape procurement, in recent years, medical supplies collection is also accelerating the implementationAt present, a number of provinces and cities have been for medical supplies of the volume of procurement, in addition to the Nanjing Alliance, a number of regions are also in the inter-provincial alliance, inter-city alliance and other ways to implement the centralized procurement of supplies.
Such as May 9, the first batch of artificial crystal eye supplies centralized band procurement meeting held in Tianjin, identified Beijing, Tianjin, Fujian, Black, Ji, Liao, Mongolia, Jin, Lu nine provinces joint band procurement of artificial crystal eye supplies work officially startedOn May 21, Chongqing, Guizhou, Yunnan and Henan Provinces Jointly issued a notice to organize the collection of medical supplies to purchaseIn April, the relevant person in charge of Qinghai Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission and Shaanxi Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission signed the "Western Province Medical Supplies Data Sharing Alliance Agreement", officially joined the Western Province medical supplies procurement cooperation alliance.
In general, according to the previous State Medical Security Bureau on the 2nd meeting of the CPPCC No4000 (Medical Sports Category 435) proposal reply letter, clearly stated that to form a national medical device price linkage mechanism, the next step the State Medical Insurance Administration will be based on drug tender-related policies to formulate medical device guidance, in accordance with the quality and function of medical devices for reasonable grouping, guide the collection center to select appropriate methods to carry out tender work.
This also means that the future supply of consumables will be like drug collection throughout the country in-depth implementation, which will reduce the price of medical supplies, reduce the burden of medical treatment will have a very large role in promoting.