Two kinds of drugs and blood are priced by the government

Source: approved by the State Council on October 21, 2015, the national development and Reform Commission released the revised central pricing catalogue, which will come into effect on January 1, 2016 Compared with the catalogue of pricing issued by the State Planning Commission and the relevant departments of the State Council in 2001, the revised central pricing categories have been reduced from 13 (categories) to 7 (categories), including natural gas, water supply for water conservancy projects, electricity, special drugs and blood, important transportation services, important postal services and important professional services Two items are reserved for drug pricing, and new blood pricing items are included in special drugs and blood pricing items, including "maximum ex factory price and maximum retail price of narcotic drugs and class I psychotropic drugs" and "blood supply price of clinical blood stations for citizens" The maximum ex factory price and maximum retail price of narcotic drugs and class I psychotropic drugs shall be fixed by the competent price department of the State Council; the price of blood supply for clinical use of citizens shall be fixed by the health and family planning department of the State Council in conjunction with the competent price department of the state Council In the catalogue of pricing by the State Planning Commission and the relevant departments of the State Council, the pricing items of drugs are "some important drugs", among which the items priced by the State Planning Commission are "the outgoing price (port price) of narcotic drugs, class I psychotropic drugs, preventive immune drugs and contraceptives purchased uniformly by the state, and the retail price of other drugs" , the pricing range is the drugs listed in the national basic medical insurance drug catalog and other small amount of special drugs with monopoly in production and operation It can be seen that the drug pricing items have been greatly reduced, only the maximum ex factory price and the maximum retail price of narcotic drugs and class I psychotropic drugs have been kept, and the blood supply price of citizens' clinical blood stations has been increased The retail price of most of the rest of the drugs has been removed from government pricing since June this year, which is determined by the market According to Hu Zucai, deputy director of the national development and Reform Commission, the revision of the central pricing catalogue is very strong, mainly reflected in three aspects: first, the scope of pricing has been greatly reduced From the previous 13 categories to 7 categories, the number of specific pricing items has been reduced from about 100 to 20, about 80%, with the largest reduction The pricing catalogue shall be listed and published to the public in the form of a list The results of the reform are fixed by the system, and the remaining pricing items are listed in the form of a list, so as to facilitate social supervision Second, the name of the catalogue has been revised, formerly known as the "pricing catalogue of the State Planning Commission and the relevant departments of the State Council" According to the provisions of articles 19 and 20 of the price law, it has been revised to the "central pricing catalogue", that is, the price under the control of the central government Third, the local pricing catalogue of local provinces After the revision of the central pricing catalogue, all government pricing items that can be kept will be published in the form of catalogue, and the central government will have no pricing power beyond the catalogue In this way, it is institutionalized, convenient for social supervision, and reflects the requirements of the new government to streamline administration and delegate power According to its introduction, significant progress has also been made in the revision of the local pricing catalogue So far, the national development and Reform Commission has approved the pricing catalogue of 30 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government), which is one province short and will be completed in the near future The average reduction of local pricing catalogue is 55%, which is still very large By the end of September, 17 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government) had announced the revised local pricing catalogue, and other provinces had also announced it in succession recently.