Since the beginning of this year, a large number of pharmacies in many places have withdrawn from medical insurance

[Pharmaceutical Network Industry News] For a long time, "medical insurance qualification" has been considered as a scarce resource for retail pharmacie.
Many pharmacies hope to obtain designated medical insurance qualifications to attract customers and improve sales performance for pharmacie.
However, it is worth noting that there have been reports in many places that a large number of retail pharmacies will withdraw from medical insuranc.
On August 4, the Guangdong Huizhou Medical Insurance Bureau issued a public announcemen.
After on-site verification and reporting to the relevant competent authorities, it plans to terminate the service agreement with 109 medical insurance designated retail pharmacies including Zhengkang Pharmacy in Zhongkai High-tech Zone, Huizhou Cit.
It is understood that most of the 109 pharmacies announced in Huizhou are single pharmacie.
It is worth noting that, after inquiries, the industry found that in addition to some pharmacies in Huizhou that have been cancelled and the agreement has been automatically terminated, there are also a large number of single pharmacies that are still in operatio.
The medical insurance agreement has also been terminate.
Not only Huizhou, Guangdon.
In fact, since the beginning of this year, the medical insurance bureaus in Putian, Fujian, Guigang, Guangxi, and Pingdingshan, Henan have issued relevant announcements, and many pharmacies have applied to terminate the designated medical insurance servic.
For example, on April 15, the Dongguan Municipal Medical Insurance Bureau of Guangdong Province issued a notice to terminate the medical insurance agreement of 7 retail pharmacie.
The notice shows that these 7 retail pharmacies have applied for the cancellation of the medical insurance agreement due to business adjustment.
In other words, these seven retail pharmacies voluntarily applied for the cancellation of the medical insurance agreemen.
On January 24, the government website of Baofeng County, Pingdingshan City, Henan Province issued an announcement stating that 6 designated retail pharmacies for medical insurance services submitted the application filing form for the termination of medical insurance services of designated medical institutions, and the 6 retail pharmacies are now cancele.
Agreement to cancel its medical insurance designated service qualification.
On January 10, the Social Medical Insurance Administration of Songyuan City, Jilin Province issued an announcement saying that 9 retail pharmacies voluntarily applied to withdraw from the designated medical insurance, in order to further strengthen the agreement management of designated medical institution.
From January 10, 2022, the medical insurance fixed-point service agreement of the above nine retail pharmacies will be cancelle.
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Analysts believe that as for the reasons for the withdrawal of medical insurance from active pharmacies, it is necessary to distinguish who is the active part.
Violation; if the pharmacy is the proactive party, it is likely to be too stresse.
At present, from the overall point of view, a large number of pharmacies are withdrawing from medical insurance voluntaril.
Behind this, the industry believes that there are two main reasons: First, the zero markup rat.
Market-oriented retail pharmacies cannot be subsidized like hospital.
Therefore, under the zero markup rate, there is no local expenditure for the cost of operating drugs in pharmacie.
Either run at a loss or squeeze profits from other merchandise sale.
The second is prohibitio.
A few county-level medical insurance departments do not allow designated medical insurance pharmacies to sell non-medical insurance or non-medical drug.
However, health food, cosmetics and general food have always been high-gross products of pharmacies, which have a greater impact on the profitability of pharmacie.
Under the impact of the above factors, it is reasonable for a large number of pharmacies to withdraw from medical insurance voluntaril.
Now, the health care sector has seen these problems and is trying to remedy the.
For example, for the zero-markup rate, different local policies have been introduced in various places, roughly allowing a price increase of about 15% to ensure that pharmacies do not lose money in operating drug.
As for the prohibition of illegal activities, several provincial medical insurance departments have issued documents prohibiting the.

In fact, in addition to the above reasons, there are many pharmacies that choose to withdraw from medical insurance voluntarily or passively cancel the agreement for other reasons because of their different business style.
But it needs to be clear that the management of medical insurance designated pharmacies has always been dynamic, and it is the norm to have in and out, and pharmacies that remain in medical insurance are still the mainstrea.
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