The price difference of the same drug is nearly 2 times the pharmacy is returned

The same type of stomach medicine costs 39 yuan for a pharmacy and 15 yuan for a family, and the price difference is nearly double.

According to the Hunan Metropolitan Channel, Mr.

It is reported that, except for the different production dates, the manufacturers and specifications of the two boxes of medicine are exactly the same.

The reporter and Mr.

Finally, the first pharmacy refunded Mr.

It should be noted that it is very necessary for medicines to have price labels.

According to Anhui Public Channel, a pharmacy selling masks without price marking was found by the regulatory authorities.

Following the centralized procurement policy, large chain pharmacies have more price advantages

In fact, with the implementation of the centralized procurement policy, some large chain pharmacies have cooperated with relevant pharmaceutical companies to implement the bid prices of centralized procurement drugs.

As early as December 2019, Xi'an Yikang Pharmacy announced that more than 1,300 stores in Shaanxi province will uniformly implement the state-organized centralized drug procurement bid, and 14 varieties have the same price as the hospital.

In the same month, the official WeChat account of Yifeng Pharmacy also issued a notice promising that if consumers are within 2 kilometers of other market institutions outside of Yifeng, they purchase drugs of the same factory and the same specifications that are lower than the retail price or membership price of the store.

Subsequently, ordinary pharmacies followed their opponents and issued a notice on the official microblog that the drug store prices were reduced by up to 90%, an average drop of 59%, including antihypertensive drugs at 0.

Same medicine, different prices in pharmacies and hospitals

According to Yulin Daily, some netizens recently reported that they bought a drug called butylphthalide soft capsule for 215 yuan per bottle in a pharmacy.

The person in charge of the pharmacy said that the drug was purchased by the pharmacy headquarters at a price of 180.

The reporter asked the Consumer Complaint Center of Yulin City for a telephone consultation.

The staff emphasized that some hospitals’ medicines are ex-factory prices, and the ex-factory prices are purchased and sold directly without any extra points.

It is understood that butylphthalide soft capsules are exclusive drugs in the new version of the National Medical Insurance Drug List.
Exclusive drugs generally cost a lot and occupy more medical insurance funds.

Different prices of the same medicine due to market competition

The same drug has different prices, and this phenomenon is widespread in the pharmacy industry.

According to Dongfang.
com, in April 2020, when Ms.
Liu bought a drug called "Ichthyol Ointment" at a pharmacy, the price was 51.
8 yuan, and she found that the same drug was priced at only 15 yuan in other chain pharmacies.
To 16 yuan.
Ms.
Liu immediately asked the pharmacy for verification, and the pharmacy said that she had not made a mistake and that the drug has always been at this price.

Why does the price of the same medicine differ by more than 2 times? Did the pharmacy violate the regulations? To this end, the reporter sought verification from the local regulatory authority and learned that the drug’s pricing was based on the reference price of Shanghai Sunshine Pharmaceutical Purchasing Website, which was rounded up by 15%, which was in line with the Shanghai Sunshine Pharmaceutical Purchasing Website.
The drug was subject to market regulation.
The price is set independently by the pharmacy.
The pharmacy mentioned clearly marked the price, and the sales price was consistent with the marked price, and did not violate the laws and regulations related to market supervision prices.

Since there is no violation, where does the double price difference come from? With this question, the reporter contacted a number of pharmacies.
Among them, the staff of the commodity management department of the common people's pharmacy gave the answer.

According to Mr.
Qian, drug procurement is generally divided into two modes: group procurement and local procurement.
The drugs purchased by the group generally refer to the information on the price network platform, and then establish a retail price based on this information; local procurement is to purchase drugs from suppliers in Shanghai, and the suppliers will provide the pharmacy with a suggested retail price when they ship the goods.
In addition, the scale and quantity of the purchased drugs will also affect the supply price of the drugs.
The greater the demand, the greater the room for price coordination.

In addition, Mr.
Qian also revealed that certain drugs will indeed be priced lower than their cost prices.
Even if they are traded at a loss, if everyone sells at this price, we will also sell it at this price.
The price of Ichthyol Ointment is certainly not determined by a pharmacy.

4 reasons for the different price of the same medicine

It can be seen from the above cases that there are four main reasons for the phenomenon of "same drug at different prices":

1.
The purchase scale of pharmacies is different, and the purchase price is different.
The larger the quantity, the cheaper the purchase price; large chain pharmacies have more prominent bargaining power in the purchase of centralized drugs.

2.
Affected by the national medical insurance policy, some hospitals do not add profit points to medicines, and the prices are lower than pharmacies.

3.
In order to compete, chain pharmacies grab more market shares and drastically cut the retail prices of medicines.
Some medicines are sold at prices even lower than the purchase price.

4.
The distribution cost of each pharmacy is different, resulting in different retail prices.