Target of drug price reduction in Qinghai: 10%

Source: Xihai Metropolis Daily, November 23, 2015, Qinghai health and Family Planning Commission reported that the recently issued work plan for centralized procurement of medical consumables for public hospitals in Qinghai Province in 2015 (hereinafter referred to as the plan) will further improve the new mechanism for public hospitals' drug bidding and procurement According to the plan, it is required to effectively reduce the virtual high price of medical consumables, establish a centralized procurement mechanism for medical consumables that combines centralized procurement by provincial units and joint procurement by medical institutions, open and transparent, classified procurement, and take measures such as integration of bidding and procurement, quantity price linkage, double envelope system, and whole process monitoring, so as to ensure the quality and supply of medical consumables and effectively reduce the patient's Medical expenses The public hospitals at and above the county level in the whole province and the grass-roots medical and health institutions, village clinics and community health service stations organized by the government participate in the centralized procurement of medical consumables Other medical institutions are encouraged to participate in the centralized purchase of drugs and medical consumables All drugs (excluding Chinese herbal pieces) used by provincial public hospitals must be purchased through provincial drug purchase platforms, and off-line transactions and off-line interest transmission of various items are prohibited Guided by the clinical needs and in accordance with the principle of "what to use, what to recruit and what to purchase", the centralized drug purchase in our province lists the drugs to be purchased through bidding, online purchase, negotiation purchase and record purchase, implements classified purchase, further reduces the false high price of drugs, and strives to reduce the average price by 10% The drug purchase of our province is based on the principle of emphasizing quality and ensuring supply In the bidding group, priority should be given to the quality assurance factors such as generic drugs, national major new drug creation science and technology major special drugs, national first-class new drugs, etc through the quality consistency evaluation; the proportion of Tibetan medicine, commonly used low-cost medicine, emergency (rescue) medicine, women and children's special medicine, basic infusion and purchase amount should be ranked at 80% Other non patent drugs and drugs not included in the bidding procurement shall be purchased online; enterprises whose distribution rate is less than 97% will be eliminated, and those whose distribution rate is not timely and affects clinical medication will be affected If medical institutions are forced to use other enterprises' medical consumables instead of drugs, the overspending expenses shall be borne by the original winning enterprises; For the drugs that are urgently needed, clinically necessary and irreplaceable in the bid winning drugs such as special and major diseases, and for the drugs needed for emergency situations such as rescuing patients, record purchase shall be carried out on the provincial drug purchase platform For the proportion of the purchase amount, the third level medical institutions shall not exceed 8% of the winning drugs of the same kind, and the second level medical institutions shall not exceed 3% In addition, four kinds of high-value medical consumables, such as pacemaker, cardiac (coronary) intervention, peripheral vascular intervention, intraocular lens and its supporting materials, were launched for bidding and procurement at the same time, and related work such as hanging net procurement was carried out simultaneously The payment for medical consumables shall be settled with the manufacturer or distribution enterprise in accordance with the purchase and sale contract in a timely manner, and the payment settlement time shall not exceed 30 days If the payment cannot be made on time within the prescribed time limit, it shall bear the responsibility for breach of contract and investigate the responsibility of relevant personnel.