The Yangtze River Delta Alliance is here!

News from the Yangtze River Delta Alliance finally! With the national procurement renewal as the starting point, two batches of procurement will be organized every year.
The first batch is planned to be launched at the end of this year, and the Shanghai Pharmaceutical Affairs Institute will be entrusted to carry it out
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Recently, a proposal called "Proposal for Continuing Work After the Expiry of the Yangtze River Delta Jointly Carrying out the National Organization Drug Centralized Purchase Agreement (Draft for Solicitation of Comments)" has been circulating in the industry
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Speaking of the Yangtze River Delta Alliance, it was mentioned in the "Implementation Opinions on Promoting the Normalized and Institutionalized Development of Drug Centralized and Volume Procurement (Draft for Solicitation of Comments)" by the Anhui Medical Insurance Bureau on March 25 this year
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It pointed out that the implementation of the Yangtze River Delta medical insurance integration requirements, and actively explore the Yangtze River Delta regional drug alliance procurement
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Since then, the industry has also predicted that the alliance will soon have actions
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According to the documents circulating this time, the alliance will start from the expiration of the national procurement and selection drug agreement as the entry point, and follow the path of "drugs first, then consumables" to advance the joint action of drug price recruitment and procurement in the Yangtze River Delta step by step
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It is reported that the implementation time of various batches of national procurement will be gradually unified, and quantity procurement will be organized twice a year, entrusted to the Shanghai Pharmaceutical Affairs Institute, and the first batch will be organized by the end of this year
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It is expected that the “4+7 centralized procurement” (i.
e.
the first batch) and the third batch of products that have expired will be collected.
If conditions permit, some of the second and fourth batches of national procurement that will expire in the first half of next year Varieties are included together
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It adopts a comprehensive bidding method and conducts comprehensive index evaluation on the two dimensions of drugs and enterprises, and will introduce a credit evaluation mechanism for drug price recruitment and procurement, deducting points for companies with poor supply guarantees, and vetoing violations of laws and regulations
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In addition, according to the contents of the Yangtze River Delta Alliance meeting on November 17 circulated in the industry, the rules of the alliance’s centralized procurement plan will be unified.
However, due to the different types of provinces, the scoring and selection conditions are not unified, and the renewal procurement volume will not be based on the alliance’s At the same time, the alliance is not required to be the only one selected.
The products selected by each province are subject to the province's purchase volume
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If this document is true, there will be 21 national inter-provincial alliances
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