October anti-tumor drugs in Beijing are expected to reduce the average price of 20%

Business Club Aug. 26th The history of Beijing hospital drug prices in the same city is coming to an end. The reporter learned from the Municipal Health Bureau yesterday that the city’s second-level or above medical institutions and designated medical institutions will achieve the same price as the end of October this year. The unified tendering for drugs will be the first time in the next two years. In the future, drug bidding will be conducted once every two years. In the past, Beijing hospitals purchased drugs for group bidding, and hospitals were divided into six groups: subordinates, municipalities, factories, mines, universities, urban areas, and suburbs. Each group carried out centralized purchasing, resulting in different prices for drugs between hospitals. .

This time, the government will combine six, unified procurement platform, unified drug prices. At the same time, the city reached an agreement with the Ministry of Health and the headquarters of the armed police to realize the “directory linkage, mechanism linkage, and work linkage” for centralized procurement of medicines in military and local medical institutions, so that the real same city drug with the same price. It is understood that with the exception of controlled drugs such as vaccines and anesthesia, drugs that are to be sold at the same price in the same city cover all the basic medicines used by medical institutions, accounting for 80% of the hospital's procurement share. In the next step, the Municipal Health Bureau will train medical institutions to use the government's unified centralized drug procurement platform, and provide medical institutions and distribution companies with a reasonable transition period for stock exchanges, avoiding shortages of medicines caused by a large number of exchanges in the short term.

It is expected that by the end of October, the city can basically realize the same price in the same city. The largest price cut exceeds 50%. Among the foreign joint venture products that participated in bargaining, 70% accepted the bid price set by experts. Some large Chinese and foreign companies, such as Beijing Secco, AstraZeneca, and Merck East, cut their prices by a big margin. Residents commonly used drugs also have a larger decline, such as antibiotics, drugs, an average decline of about 18.63%; cardiovascular drugs, an average reduction of about 14%; hormones and endocrine (glucose) drugs decreased by an average of about 14.02%; anti-tumor drugs The average decline is about 20.28%. The drug with the largest drop of 52% is the cephalosporin sodium powder for injection used by Hainan Lingkang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. The successful bidder will not be eligible to disqualify. In the past, drug bids all over the country have experienced a phenomenon of “killing oneself and dying”. In order to squeeze competitors and hostile bids, some companies have reduced their yields after winning bids, and have not provided normal supplies for hospitals. goods. This time, the relevant departments will take a series of supervision and inspection of the winning bids, malicious bids below the cost price, disrupting the market order; products that are not delivered or are not delivered on time, resulting in shortages of clinical drugs used by medical institutions, all included in the bad records and conducted Online publicity, cancel the qualification of winning all products of the company, and the centralized drug procurement management organization shall not accept any application for centralized purchase of products within two years from the date of cancellation. The medical institution of the city shall not purchase its products in any form within two years.

In addition to the tendered drugs, there are still some low-cost medicines and shortage medicines that have not been tendered and bids, but instead have taken the form of online procurement. In order to solve the problem of shortage of drugs for clinical use, especially first aid and salvage, in medical institutions, encourage the enterprises to produce and operate such varieties of enthusiasm and meet the needs of the masses for the use of low-priced drugs. The relevant departments organize experts to develop the "Catalogue of Shortage Drugs," " Low Price Drug List. For the low-cost shortage drugs, the form of online procurement is adopted, and companies directly quote and deal with the Internet.

For example, for those injections with a dose of less than one yuan, or less than one cent, they are not in the form of open bidding, but are directly linked to the net. A total of 2,284 product information of 418 companies met the requirements, forming a list of low-priced medicines and shortage medicines. The drugs purchased from this time are both long-term clinically short-lived blood products such as coagulation factor VIII and fibrinogen, as well as low-priced drugs such as lactase and painkillers that are popular with the general public.