The hospital's repayment problem will be broken from this month

"Pharmaceutical Network Industry Dynamics" Recently, Sichuan Provincial Health Insurance Bureau issued the "Sichuan Province pharmaceutical and medical supplies centralized purchase of goods online payment settlement management measures (provisional) (draft for comments)" shows that the Sichuan Provincial Health Insurance Bureau opened a centralized payment supervision account for drug purchases, specifically for handling and supervision of pharmaceutical institutions and pharmaceutical enterprises through the platform of drug purchase payment collection and payment business.
Among them, for the settlement of the purchase with volume, the Measures clearly state that within 15 working days of the signing of the purchase and sale contract, the medical insurance agency will make an initial advance payment of not less than 50% of the purchase amount of the contract, and after half of the contract purchase amount has been executed, the remaining portion of the drug purchase price shall be paid in advance again within 15 working days.
In addition to Sichuan Province, in July this year, Guizhou Provincial Health Insurance Bureau issued the "Guizhou Province drug centralized purchase payment unified settlement management implementation of the interim measures (draft for comments)," but also the hospital supplies settlement of a number of requirements.
, it is made clear that the purchase price of medical institutions will be unified settlement.
medical institutions shall transfer the settlement purchase price to the settlement account on time, and shall not exceed 30 days from the date of acceptance of the drug delivery and confirmation of receipt.
medical institutions that unprovokedly delay the payment of purchase prices, the principal persons in charge of medical institutions and related personnel will be held accountable.
can be seen from the above, all over the medical institutions to pay back the difficult problem, is actively taking measures to solve.
In fact, all along, in the transaction, public hospitals as buyers, in the procurement process of supplies, equipment, medicines naturally belong to a strong subject, so the procurement process is always first supply and then payment, hospital repayment has become the norm.
as in September 2018, the Hubei Pharmaceutical Industry Association surveyed eight representative pharmaceutical commercial enterprises, and the results showed that the repayment period of medicines in public medical institutions was 960 days, with arrears amounting to 86 million yuan.
, the average account period of a provincial district's second-tier and above public hospitals is about 640 days, the total arrears of a commercial company's drug payments as high as 280 million yuan.
addition to this, there is even a repayment period of up to 60 months, that is, five years.
in order to solve this problem, the state has been on the medical institutions to pay back the problem of slow rectification, in recent years has published a number of documents, emphasizing the issue of repayment, shorten the health care center repayment cycle.
Now, in May of this year, the State Health Insurance Administration issued the Notice on the Issue of the National List of Government Service Matters for the Administration of Medical Security, which specifies that the time limit for the settlement of expenses of designated medical institutions (including medical institutions and retail pharmacies) shall not exceed 30 working days.
According to the deployment, by the end of August 2020, the provincial medical security departments should earnestly follow the content and format requirements of the national list, complete the publication of the provincial list and guidelines, synchronize and standardize the processing of matters on the line (including mobile terminals), and ensure the formal implementation of the inventory system by the end of August 2020.
note that on 18 July, the State published the Regulations on the Protection of payment of funds to SMALL and Medium-sized Enterprises (hereinafter referred to as the Regulations), which specify the terms of payment.
requires organs and institutions to purchase goods, works and services from small and medium-sized enterprises, they shall make payments within 30 days from the date of delivery of the goods, works and services, and if the contract otherwise stipulates, the payment period shall not exceed 60 days.
regulations will come into effect on September 1, 2020, according to the website of the relevant departments.
this, the industry believes that the public hospitals with the nature of institutions 30 days to pay back this month or will be "pinned on the board."
Overall, with the support of the policy, in addition to Sichuan, Guizhou, the health care committee has issued a letter to ensure that medical institutions can normally give drugs, machinery enterprises within 30 days to pay back.
this background, coupled with the implementation of the Protection of Payment of Small and Medium Enterprises Ordinance from this month, the future repayment pressure on pharmaceutical companies may be further reduced.