The highest drop of 98%, Chongqing Medical Insurance Bureau announces the results of the alliance's centralized procurement

With the continuous development of minimally invasive surgery, the market for high-value consumables such as staplers and ultrasonic scalpels has also grown, and large-scale inter-provincial alliances have also followed

Announcement of the selected list

On December 20, the Chongqing Municipal Medical Insurance Bureau issued the "Notice on Announcement of the Selection Results of the Yuqiong, Yunnan, Guiqing, Yuxin Xinjiang Corps Endoscopic Stapler and Yuqiong, Yunnan, Qianning, Guixin, Xinjiang Corps Venous Indwelling Needle Alliance"

It is reported that the average drop of endoscopic staplers and components is 79.

According to reports, this alliance procurement includes 70% of the demand from medical institutions in centralized procurement.

The person in charge of the Municipal Medical Insurance Bureau stated that the acceptance of the two types of products by clinical experts and patients is different.

In addition, according to the previously released procurement documents, non-selected products will also be included in the monitoring and management of the alliance's procurement area

17 provincial alliances are in progress

On November 23, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Pharmaceutical Purchasing Platform released the "Work Plan for the Linked Purchasing and Use of Medical Consumables for the “3+14” Stapler in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region”

All public medical institutions (including military medical institutions) in 17 provinces (cities, districts) in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Jiangxi, Hubei, Guangxi, Shandong, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai and Tibet , The same below) form a procurement alliance to carry out centralized procurement of stapler medical consumables, including two types of tubular/end-to-end staplers and hemorrhoid staplers

On December 19, the 17-province union centralized procurement just concluded the second public announcement of the lowest selected prices for products from other regions

Stapler is a medical instrument that replaces traditional manual suture in surgical operations.

The development of the stapler has roughly gone through several technical stages of open stapler, endoscopic stapler and electric stapler

In the minimally invasive surgical medical device market, staplers are a relatively large segment, accounting for 27.

Among them, the technical barriers of electric staplers are higher

Hundred yuan era has come

Prior to this, the Chongqing-Guizhou-Yunnan Union, Jiangsu Province, and Shanxi Province have carried out centralized procurement of open staplers

In the provincial procurement, the fourth round of medical consumables alliance procurement in Jiangsu Province showed an average drop of 83.

In August last year, in the centralized procurement of Chongqing, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Henan, there were 18 stapler groups and 31 products were determined to be selected products.

There are relatively few provinces and alliances that have carried out the centralized procurement of endoscopic staplers, and currently only the experience of Hunan Province can be used as a reference
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In August this year, the "Hunan Province 2020 Medical Institutions Partial Medical Consumables Centralized Purchasing Results" showed that the lowest bid price for centralized procurement was 338 yuan, and the highest bid price was 747 yuan
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On the whole, most staplers that used to cost thousands of yuan in centralized procurement have fallen below 1,000 yuan
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Driven by the centralized procurement of the Chongqing 8-province alliance and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei 17 provincial alliance, the overall product price of the stapler industry will further decline
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