The centralized drug sales counter is another city!

Following Zibo, Shandong, the “collectively-purchased drug sales counter” entered the pharmacy model for another city.
This time, the protagonist is Yuncheng, Shanxi
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A few days ago, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province expanded the main body of centralized drug procurement to voluntary medical insurance designated retail pharmacies, taking the lead in the province to carry out centralized drug procurement into pharmacies
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According to relevant regulations, starting from January 1, 34 retail pharmacies in Yuncheng will start selling centralized medicines, including Sinopharm Shanxi Guokang Pharmacy Yuncheng Center Store Co.
, Ltd.
and Yuncheng Yabao Pharmacy Chain Co.
, Ltd.
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Pharmacies participating in the project using the "six unification" mechanism must meet the requirements of "counter sales, real-name registration, and guarantee demand", and establish a set of "six unifications" for unified varieties, unified prices, unified counters, unified registration, unified settlement, and unified supervision.
Drugs (consumables) are collected and sold in designated retail pharmacies
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From the perspective of categories, the centralized procurement of drugs into the pharmacy this time involves 82 kinds of drugs for the treatment of malignant tumors, hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, etc.
, and commonly used drugs account for 80%
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In addition, the Yuncheng Medical Insurance Bureau requires that the designated retail pharmacies must register and purchase drugs through the real-name system for customers who purchase centralized drugs.
In principle, the amount is controlled within one month
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For patients with chronic diseases (major diseases) who need to entrust others to purchase, the purchaser needs to carry the medical certificate of the chronic disease patient, and after the purchaser and patient information are truthfully registered at the designated retail pharmacy, the purchase of medicines is strictly based on the patient's consumption
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After the patient purchases the medicine, the designated retail pharmacy needs to issue the relevant certificate to the patient and establish a file for future reference
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All designated retail pharmacies that participate in the sales of centralized drug counters must strictly manage the sales of centralized drug purchases, establish a blacklist system, and focus on abnormal drug purchase behaviors such as frequent drug purchases and excessive drug purchases.
Reports from the municipal medical insurance department and the municipal market supervision and management department
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Centralized Procurement Speeding up and Area Expansion In the past year, the advancement of centralized procurement has entered the fast lane
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In January 2021, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Promoting the Normalization and Institutionalization of Centralized Drug Procurement with Volume".
The procurement work will be carried out in a normalized and institutionalized manner, and the formation of a unified and open national centralized drug procurement market will be accelerated
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The release of the policy further supports the normalization of centralized procurement.
In February, the fourth batch of centralized procurement was launched.
The average price of selected products was reduced by 52%, with a maximum drop of 96%.
This round of centralized procurement was included in injections for the first time; in June, the fifth batch of centralized procurement After the launch, the scale of procurement reached a record high.
In the end, the procurement of 61 drugs was successful, with an average price reduction of 56%; in November, the sixth batch of centralized procurement was launched.
This time, this time was a special procurement for insulin.
42 products were selected in this centralized procurement.
The selected products have an average price reduction of 48%, with a maximum price reduction of 70%
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"The next step is to promote the normalization and institutionalization of centralized and volume-based procurement, and speed up the expansion, and continue to reduce drug prices to benefit patients
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Focusing on chronic diseases and common diseases, we will continue to promote centralized drug procurement at the national level.
Provincial or inter-provincial alliance procurement of foreign drugs
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Before the end of this year, the national and provincial centralized procurement of drugs will reach more than 350 in each province
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" The executive meeting of the State Council held on January 10 demonstrated the implementation effect of centralized procurement
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In recent years, the reform of centralized procurement of medicines and high-value medical consumables has been continuously advanced, and the market-oriented mechanism has effectively suppressed the inflated prices of medicines.
As of the end of last year, a total of 260 billion yuan in medical insurance and patient expenditures have been saved, and it has also promoted pharmaceutical companies.
More energy is devoted to product development and quality improvement
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Infiltrating into county-level towns While many fields are in full swing, the centralized pharmacy terminal is finally on the right track, and it will make rapid progress in 2021
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In addition to Yuncheng, Shanxi, Zibo, Shandong has piloted the "national centralized drug purchase counter" in October last year to encourage pharmacies to sell centralized drugs.
After the pilot is successful, it plans to include all medical insurance designated pharmacies
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Zhejiang Zhoushan combines the fixed-point credit rating of medical insurance with the "low-cost drug counter" to promote the landing of low-cost drugs on the terminal
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In terms of categories, the first batch of 83 centralized drugs sold in Henan include anticancer drugs, digestive system drugs, and commonly used drugs such as antihypertensive, hypoglycemic, and lipid-lowering drugs
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Most of the activities of "National Centralized Purchase of Drugs into Pharmacies" are based on drugs for common diseases and chronic diseases
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Compared with the first two types of pilot models, the "low-cost drug counter" implemented in Zhoushan, Zhejiang focuses on low-cost drugs, and centralized procurement of drugs only belongs to one of them
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Although the three models have their own emphases, different pilot scopes and different strengths, their essence is to solve the "resistance" of the landing terminal of centralized medicines
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This form of platform built by the government to promote docking solves the problem that pharmacies cannot enjoy the centralized procurement price of hospitals when purchasing goods, lowers the threshold for pharmacies to obtain low-priced and high-quality varieties, and enables small and medium-sized pharmacies with relatively weak bargaining power to enjoy the same.
purchase price
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It can be seen that the thinking of centralized purchasing is gradually infiltrating into county-level towns, and more and more pharmacies are beginning to embrace this wave of centralized purchasing
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From the perspective of the implementation effect, the passenger flow and sales volume brought by the centralized procurement model are still considerable.
How to realize the effective conversion of passenger flow will become one of the survival issues for retail pharmacies in 2022
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