Provincial official announcement: Medical consumables prices are starting to run naked!
More than 20 provinces have implemented a nationwide unified bidding and procurement subsystem! Further acceleration of consumables information exchange.
Confirm! Another province is connected to the national unified bidding and procurement platform
On October 19th, the Shanxi Provincial Pharmaceutical Equipment Centralized Procurement Platform issued the "Notice on the Switching and Migration of Shanxi Provincial Pharmaceutical Equipment Centralized Procurement Platform" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"), and the national unified bidding and procurement platform was officially launched in Shanxi.
It was learned from the notice that the Shanxi Province Medical Equipment Centralized Procurement Platform will switch to the Shanxi Province Medical Security Platform's Drug and Medical Consumables Procurement Management Subsystem (hereinafter referred to as the "Procurement Subsystem") starting from October 26, 2022. That is to say, after October 26th, all consumables information in Shanxi Province will be synchronized with the national level.
The notice requires that after the activation of the procurement subsystem, all medical institutions at all levels in the province must operate the procurement transactions and settlement work of drugs and equipment in the procurement subsystem. The transaction data generated by this system will serve as an important basis for implementing various medical insurance policies in the future.
The notice also emphasizes that all pharmaceutical equipment production enterprises must complete the maintenance of the national medical insurance code of their products on the original platform as soon as possible. After the official launch of the procurement subsystem, drugs that have not completed the maintenance of medical insurance codes will be disqualified from platform trading.
After the official announcement of the National Medical Insurance Bureau in May this year that the national unified medical insurance information platform was fully completed, all parts of the country are actively responding and accelerating the implementation and use of the national unified procurement subsystem.
According to incomplete statistics, more than 20 provinces, municipalities directly under the central government, autonomous regions, and corps have issued documents and launched bidding and procurement subsystems nationwide, most of which have completed the docking work.
Now, after the official implementation of the Shanxi Province procurement subsystem, the national consumables information is further interconnected, and the era of "naked running" consumables prices has arrived!
Progress is accelerating!
More than 20 provincial bidding and procurement subsystems have been launched
Except for Shanxi Province, Fujian, Hebei, and Gansu have recently announced specific arrangements for the official launch of the procurement subsystem.
After all medical consumables data information is synchronized nationwide, the operation of centralized procurement platforms in various provinces will be more orderly, convenient, and efficient, and prices will no longer have any room for improvement.
On the other hand, this will also lay a solid foundation for the next step of centralized procurement of drugs and consumables, price monitoring, establishing unified online rules, and collaborative management of medical service prices, forming a unified "one game" nationwide.
Public hospital consumables procurement has changed!
What impact and shock will the comprehensive implementation of the national unified procurement platform in various provinces bring to the entire medical industry?
As early as 2020, the National Medical Insurance Administration stated in a response letter that it should actively promote departmental data sharing after the completion of the procurement subsystem, strengthen the linkage and monitoring of drug and medical consumables prices in various provinces, and establish unified rules for network hanging and withdrawal.
Recently, the National Medical Insurance Bureau once again mentioned in its response to Recommendation No. 8031 of the Fifth Session of the 13th National People's Congress that it is currently working to establish a unified national medical network and transaction rules, in order to strengthen the standardization, standardization, and professionalization of the medical centralized procurement platform.
Unified online and trading rules mean that the future medical market will be more fair and open.
With the further exchange of information among provinces, the increasingly high prices of drugs and consumables will be curbed. Under the unified national "one game", the procurement of consumables for public hospitals will also be further standardized.
The medical industry will also usher in a more fair and just competitive environment, and a large number of excellent domestic equipment enterprises will embrace development opportunities.