Policy part of the medical event in November: great changes will happen to the pharmaceutical industry

[policies and regulations of pharmaceutical network] in November, the comprehensive stop of mailing prescription drugs, the announcement of the new version of medical insurance negotiation results, 160 varieties of traditional Chinese medicine formula particles have a unified standard of pilot.. New pharmaceutical policies are emerging in an endless stream, which makes people dizzying Among them, the publication of the 2019 new version of the medical insurance negotiation catalogue has attracted great attention of the industry These policies and regulations not only affect the pharmaceutical industry in China, but also bring more convenience and preference to the masses In November, the negative list of market access (2019 version) was officially released There are 9 relevant market access regulations in the field of medicine The fifth item clearly states: "pharmaceutical production and trading enterprises shall not directly sell prescription drugs to the public by mail or internet transaction in violation of regulations." It can be seen that online drug sales will be further standardized and industry supervision will be stricter The negotiation results of 2019 new medical insurance were released on November 28, and the negotiation results of 2019 new medical insurance finally came out A total of 70 drugs were added to the medical insurance catalog through negotiation, 27 drugs were successfully renewed, and 97 drugs were included in the medical insurance catalog, with an average price drop of 60.7% It is conservatively estimated that through negotiation of price reduction and medical insurance reimbursement, the individual burden of patients will be reduced to less than 20% of the original level In November 24th, the National Health Insurance Bureau jointly announced that Alipay medical insurance electronic vouchers were online It is reported that the medical insurance electronic voucher is the national medical insurance online business identity voucher, which will be successively opened and used in parts of seven provinces (cities) including Fujian, Shandong, Hebei, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Shanghai and Guangdong In addition, some pharmacies and hospitals in nearly 20 cities, such as Jinan, Fuzhou and Xiamen, have now opened the medical insurance payment function According to the head of the National Medical Security Bureau, this voucher will soon cover the whole country, and it is expected to realize cross regional communication in the future In order to reduce the false high drug price and reduce the burden of drug cost, Hunan Province has been actively promoting the implementation of the national policy of centralized drug volume procurement On November 21, at the press conference on centralized drug procurement in Hunan Province held in Changsha, the relevant person in charge disclosed that Hunan Province will fully implement the national centralized drug procurement, carry out the first step in the country's antibacterial drug procurement, and manage high-value medical consumables at the same time At the end of November, the State Food and Drug Administration issued two successive announcements, requiring manufacturers of cerebrosine and carnosine injection and compound bone peptide injection to revise the instructions as required, and making relevant manufacturers report to the provincial drug regulatory authorities for filing before January 8, 2020 In November, the preparation of the processing standard of Chinese herbal pieces was accelerated The State Pharmacopoeia Commission announced that it held the review meeting of the processing standard of Chinese Herbal Pieces in Beijing on October 15-16, 2019 The relevant committee members, experts, personnel of relevant units and nearly 30 staff of the committee attended the meeting The meeting discussed the format and content of the preparation of the national standard for the preparation of Chinese herbal pieces, formed a consensus of expert review, and considered the unified and coordinated information of the relevant standard for the preparation of Chinese herbal pieces Notice on further promoting the experience of deepening the reform of medical and health system in Fujian Province and Sanming City was issued in November According to the notice, Fujian Province and Sanming City have the right direction, clear path, effective measures and obvious results of medical reform, which are the benchmark of national medical reform At the same time, it also made clear the target of 24 medical reform tasks in 7 aspects in the future, and put forward specific target requirements and implementation time nodes On November 8, 2019, the State Pharmacopoeia Commission issued the publicity on the unified standards for the pilot of traditional Chinese medicine formula granules 160 traditional Chinese medicine formula granules have the unified standards for the pilot From the list, including Morinda formula particles, paeony formula particles, white skin formula particles, Danshen formula particles and other 160 common traditional Chinese medicine formula particles.