The problem of high drug price in 2015 provincial budget report of Hubei Province is outstanding

Source: on July 28, 2016, at the 23rd Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 12th Hubei Provincial People's Congress, entrusted by the provincial government, Zhang Yongxiang, director of the provincial audit department, made the audit report on 2015 provincial budget implementation and other financial revenues and expenditures, which was submitted to the Standing Committee of the provincial people's Congress for deliberation According to the report, last year, the province's local general public budget revenue reached 300.55 billion yuan, the first time reaching a new level of 300 billion yuan, and the revenue scale rose to the ninth place in the country According to the report, the budget implementation of 110 departments directly under the provincial government and 486 secondary and tertiary units in 2015 was audited The audit results show that in 2015, the "three public" funds and conference expenses of these provincial departments and affiliated units reached 378 million yuan, a decrease of 62 million yuan or 15% over the previous year Among them, entertainment expenses, overseas expenses, vehicle operation expenses and conference expenses are respectively 30%, 69%, 67% and 34% of the budget at the beginning of the year, saving 450 million yuan The number of serious violations of discipline such as "eight regulations" has been significantly reduced Serious violations of discipline, such as the establishment of private "small coffers" and off account accounting, have been fundamentally curbed and some have been basically eliminated In 104 departments audited for two consecutive years, the amount of problems found in the audit decreased by 420 million yuan or 41% compared with the previous year The problems of illegal distribution, false reporting and arbitrage, etc in violation of financial laws and disciplines, amounted to 82 million yuan, accounting for 5.3% of the total amount of problems, down 7 percentage points from 2014 According to the report, the audit of people's livelihood projects found that the problem of inflated drug prices was more prominent Among the top 100 drugs used in Hubei Province, 78 drugs cost 11.2% more than the lowest bidding price in 32 provinces In 2015, a total of 38.33 million units of 78 kinds of drugs were purchased, with a payment of 1.88 billion yuan If they were purchased at the lowest bid winning price in relevant provinces of the country, the cost of drug procurement could be saved, and the burden of patients and medical insurance fund could be reduced by 259 million yuan The reason for this phenomenon is that the drug catalogue of Hubei province did not organize re bidding in time In addition, the average price of some drugs winning the bidding is 3-6 times higher than the ex factory price, mainly because the drug manufacturers include the profits and marketing costs in the circulation link into the bidding price in order to occupy the market The audit actively exposed and reflected the serious violations of laws and disciplines in key funds, key projects and key fields, and transferred the clues of major violations of laws and disciplines such as abuse of power, corruption, embezzlement, embezzlement, false report and arbitrage to the discipline inspection, supervision and procuratorial organs in a timely manner The report shows that since this year, a total of 134 cases have been transferred, involving 611 people (units), involving a total amount of 1.657 billion yuan The discipline inspection and procuratorial organs have filed 38 cases of clues transferred by audit, and the rest are in the process of investigation